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Qutb ud-Din Aibak

Also called: Aibak, Qutbuddin Aibak

First sultan of Delhi (r. 1206–1210), a Turkic slave general of the Ghurids who founded the Mamluk (Slave) dynasty

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    1206 – 1526Founding of the Delhi Sultanateleader

    Aibak, a Turkic slave general of the Ghurids, made himself sultan at Delhi and founded the Slave dynasty. Muslim dynasties ruled northern India for 320 years.

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  • Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533

    From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own