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unusual facts about Qutb-ud-din Aibak



Amadou Bamba

The universal dimension of this Servant of the Prophet, authenticates "Qutb"1 (pole of its time) was not long in appearing and one visited him from all the horizons, as it was the case of this Cherif of Médine, Mawlay Ahmad Tibri which made print specimens of "Masaalik-ul Jinaan" (a treaty of Sufism of the Sheik) or of this descendant of Abu Bakr Siddiq (khalif of Islam) which came from Mecca visit to the Holy Man.

Bahram-Shah of Ghazna

Believing that Qutb and his brother Sayf al-Din Suri had come to court to scout the city for a future raid, Bahram had Qutb poisoned, though Sayf al-Din Suri escaped.

Delhi Sultanate

Qutb-ud-din Aibak, a former slave (Mamluk-Cuman-Kipchak) of Muhammad Ghori, was the first sultan of Delhi and his dynasty managed to conquer large areas of northern India.

Hoda Kotb

The surname "Kotb" (Qutb) means "pole", as in North or South Pole, and is a common surname among Egyptians.

Jam Feroz


Jam Ferz fled the battlefield and took refuge in Gujarat and presented his daughter to Sultan Qutb ud-Din Bahadur Shah.

Ma'alim fi al-Tariq

Some, such as scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl, have questioned Qutb's understanding of Sharia, and his assumptions that Sharia is not only perfect but accessible to mortals in its completeness.

Qutb ad-Din Mawdud

At the beginning of 1168, Kara Arslan, the Artuqid emir of Hasankeyf, died, and Qutb ad-Din Mawdud tried to conquer that city; but he was pushed back by Nur ad-Din, who had promised to defend Arslan's successors.

After the death of Saif ad-Din Ghazi in 1149, Qutb ad-Din Mawdud was the first to arrive in Mosul and have himself recognized as emir; Nur ad-Din, who desired to add the city to his lands, occupied Homs and Sinjar, preparing to attack his brother.

Ranjit Singh

In 1802 Ranjit Singh took Amritsar from the Bhangi Sardari and followed this in 1807, after a month of fierce fighting, with the conquest of Kasur from the Afghan chief Qutb ud-Din.


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