Alptekin - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Alptekin - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Bosworth, C. Edmund

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060464
Doc. NO	:	ALei861
Main Entry	:	Bosworth, C. Edmund
Title & Author	:	Alptekin - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Bosworth, C. Edmund
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(671 words)
Abstract	:	Alptekin (Alptegīn, d. 352/963) was a Turkish ghulām , or military slave commander, of the Sāmānids of Transoxania, who founded a centre of Turkish power in eastern Afghanistan that subsequently developed into the Ghaznavid state. (Alptigin (Turk.) literally means “hero prince”; however, by the fourth/tenth century, the second element, tigin , had undergone a downward social shift and was commonly found in the names of slaves.) Nothing is known of Alptekin’s origins, but it appears that he had been purchased as a slave from Inner Asia and entered the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei861.pdf