Ghurid dynasty
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Ghurid dynasty | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 786–1215 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 Map of Ghurid territory, before the assassination of Muhammad of Ghor. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Firozkoh Herat Ghazni (1170s–1215) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (court, literature) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Before 1011: Paganism From 1011: Sunni Islam | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Government | Hereditary monarchy Diarchy (1173–1206) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Malik/Sultan | |||||||||||||||||||||
• 8th-century | Amir Banji (first) | ||||||||||||||||||||
• 1214–1215 | Zia al-Din Ali (last) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||
• Established | 786 | ||||||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1215 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1200 est. | 2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ghūrids, or Ghorids (Persian ; سلطنت غوريان self-designation: شنسبانی, Shansabānī), were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Eastern Iranian origin from the Ghor region of present-day central Afghanistan, but the exact ethnic origin is uncertain although they are commonly said to have been Eastern Iranian Pashtuns.
The dynasty later converted to Sunni Islam after the conquest of Ghor by the Ghaznavid sultan Mahmud of Ghazni in 1011. The dynasty overthrew the Ghaznavid Empire in 1186 when Sultan Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad of Ghor conquered the last Ghaznavid capital of Lahore.