Ghazni

Mmm.

Con una princesa de Gazni, reveló a los mongoles la entrada secreta del castillo.

Pero en lugar de una recompensa, encontró un final espantoso, porque los mongoles ejecutaron a la princesa y después masacraron a todos los hombres, mujeres y animales de la ciudad.

Qué malditos.

Afghan women are not powerless as we live in the darkest part of the history.

You come from Ghazni province.

It's very mountainous, and I've read in interviews that you used to go up there with your brother.

You had a mutual dream to climb Everest together.

"Oh, I'm so happy.

I'm so proud of you." And also, I got so many messages from Afghan women that they, inspired by my climbing, they can do something different.

How did you mentally prepare? It's a big mountain and obviously different to the mountains of Ghazni where you grew up.

First, I climbed big mountain in my head.

It is indeed a strange piece of forgotten history which thus joins two such different characters and leads us to the spot where the two streams still flowed side by side which were fated hereafter to diverge so far.

in the middle of the eleventh century some twenty-five years before the norman won the broad lands of the saxon a great revolution took place in the east the iconoclast mahmud of ghazni had left his kingdom in his successor's feebler grasp and the fierce tartar tribes which roamed beyond the oxus in that officina gentium of the east had risen against his authority and had driven him an exile southwards beyond the hindu cush the sceptre of persia thus passed the invading chief who under the name of togrul beg established the seljukian dynasty a memorable name amid the shadows which chase one another so rapidly across the scene of oriental history it was the seljukides who caused the crusades the caliphs of baghdad and egypt and their provincial vice-regents had found it to their interest to protect the pilgrims of the west as they flocked to the holy city and they had held undisputed possession of palestine the frank stranger might mourn that omar's mosque stood on mount meriah but he thankfully paid his pilgrim tax and returned in peace to his home but the turkish conquerors knew nothing of the advantages of interchange and commerce their only law was the sword from the hour of their rise the pilgrims were crushed by their oppression and returned to their several lands with dismal tales of turkish license and cruelty They did not complain in vain.

A nerve was touched of exquisite feeling, and the sensation vibrated to the heart of Europe.

But the Crusades were still future at the time when our narrative opens.

Upon arriving in Sindh, I followed this path, purchasing horses and camels from the merchants, the Mamluks and others.

I purchased approximately 30 horses and a camel carrying a load of arrows from an Iraqi merchant from Tikrit, known as Muhammad al-Dhuri, while in the city of Ghazna.

These were gifts for the Sultan.

The mentioned merchant then traveled to Khorasan before returning to India, where he demanded a hundred from me.

here is a very old Gurudwara, 200-300 years old.

This is where Maharaj Ranjit Singh and Khalsa were sent to Afghanistan, to Ghazni.

They are linked to Afghanistan.

Then the Gurudwara was built by Gurudwara Singh.

So if you want to see that, you should go and embed with the ANA.

And I would do that, but that was a different – And then, you know, in Ghazni, it would be, okay, I said I wanted to go visit 216 Infantry.

And they said, no, we're going to send you to – or no, it was I wanted to visit 128 Infantry again.

And they said, no, you're going to visit 216 Infantry because we've got something going on that we want to show you there.

The FBI had issued an alert for her, believing she was linked to a global terrorist network.

In the summer of 2008, Siddiqui turned up outside a compound in Ghazni and was arrested for suspicious behavior.

And our government picked her up in Afghanistan or...

During FBI questioning, according to the U.S. government, Siddiqui seized an Army officer's M4 rifle, shouted death to all Americans in Arabic, and fired at U.S. officials.

He himself chose a life of asceticism in a cloister.

but even while there men rumoured speeches of heresy that he had uttered sometimes of one kind and sometimes of another but to my story one day hassan said to me and to khayyam it is a universal belief that the pupils of the imam mohaffar will attain to fortune now even if we all do not attain thereto without doubt one of us will what then shall be our mutual pledge and bond we answered be it what you please well he said let us make a vow that to whomsoever this fortune falls he shall share it equally with the rest and reserve no pre-eminence for himself be it so we both replied and on these terms we mutually pledged our words Years rolled on, and I went from Khodasan to Transoxiana, and wandered to Ghazni and Kabul, and when I returned I was invested with office, and rose to be administrator of affairs during the sultanate of Sultan Alp Ashlan.

such is the narrative of nizam ul mug the famous vizier of alp ashlan and of his son and successor malik shah who gives this story of his youth in his political will vasia nizam ul mug that is testamentum which he wrote in his old age as a manual to future statesmen he goes on to state that years passed by and both his old school friends found him out and came and claimed a share in his good fortune according to the school-day vow the vizier was generous and kept his word hassan demanded a place in the government which the sultan granted at the vizier's request but discontented with the gradual rise he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an oriental court and failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor he was disgraced and fell his subsequent adventures are one of the romances of oriental history after many mishaps and wanderings he became the head of the persian sect of the ismailians a party of fanatics who had long murmured in obscurity but rose to an evil eminence under the guidance of his strong and evil will in a d ten ninety he seized the castle of alamut in the province of rudbar which lies in the mountainous tract south of the caspian sea here he fixed his stronghold and it was from this mountain home that the sheik obtained that evil celebrity among the crusaders as the old man of the mountains from alamut issued those fierce fanatics who in blind devotion to their chief's commands spread terror through the mohammedan world and it is yet disputed whether the word assassin which they have left in the language of modern europe as their dark memorial is derived from the hashish or opiate of hemp leaves the indian bung with which they madden themselves to the sullen pitch of oriental desperation or from the name of the founder of the dynasty whom we have seen in his quiet collegiate days at nishapur to complete the picture we need only add that one of the countless victims of the assassin's dagger was nizam ul mulk himself the old schoolboy friend omar khayyam also came to the vizier to claim his share but not to ask for title or office the greatest boon you can confer on me he said is to let me live in a corner under the shadow of your fortune to spread wide the advantages of science and pray for your long life and prosperity the vizier tells us that when he found that he was really sincere in his refusal he pressed him no further but granted him a yearly pension of twelve hundred mithkhils of gold from the treasury of neshipur at neshipur thus lived and died omar khayyam the poet astronomer of persia busied adds the vizier in winning knowledge of every kind and especially in astronomy wherein he attained to a very high pre-eminence under the sultanate of malik shah he came to merv and obtained great praise for his proficiency in science and the sultan showered favours upon him of omar's attainments as an astronomer we have ample proof when malik shah determined to reform the calendar he was one of the eight learned men employed to do it and the result was the jalali era so called from the jalal ul din one of the king's names a computation of time says gibbon which surpasses the julian and approaches the accuracy of the gregorian style he is also the author of some astronomical tables entitled zidji malikshai and we have placed at the head of our article a treatise of his on algebra which has been lately translated and published in europe of the particular incidents of his life we know little enough for probably there was little to know a life like his spent in quiet toil and hiving knowledge with each studious year leaves little for the chronicler to record his takallus or poetical name kayam signifies a tent-maker and he is said to have at one time exercised that trade perhaps before nizam ul mukh's generosity raised him to independence Many Persian poets similarly derive their names from their occupations.

Thus we have Atar, a druggist, Asar, an oil presser, etc.

In the middle of the eleventh century, some twenty-five years before the Norman won the broad lands of the Saxon, a great revolution took place in the East.

The iconoclast Mahmud of Ghazni had left his kingdom in his successor's feebler grasp, and the fierce Tartar tribes, which roamed beyond the Oxus in that officina gentium of the East, had risen against his authority, and had driven him, an exile, southwards beyond the Hindu Kush.

The sceptre of Persia thus passed to the invading chief, who, under the name of Togrul Beg, established the Seljukian dynasty, a memorable name amid the shadows which chase one another so rapidly across the scene of Oriental history.

It was the Seljukides who caused the Crusades.

Well, he said, let us make a vow that to whomsoever this fortune falls he shall share it equally with the rest and reserve no pre-eminence for himself.

Be it so, we both replied, and on these terms we mutually pledged our words.

Years rolled on, and I went from Khurasan to Transoxiana and wandered to Ghazni and Kabul.

And when I returned I was invested with office, and rose to be administrator of affairs during the sultanate of Sultan Alp Arslan.