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A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA

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4.Mahmud I (1093–94), his son4th generation<br />

5.Barkiyaruq (1094–1105), his brother<br />

6.Malik Shah II (1105), his son5th generation<br />

7.Muhammad I (1105–18), his uncle4th generation<br />

8.Sanjar (1118–57), his brother<br />

Takeover by the Khwarazmshahs<br />

Khwarazmshahs (Khwarazm, later much of Central Asia and Iran;<br />

several dynasties, the earliest documented date being 898; the last<br />

Khwarazmshah perished in 1231; Bosworth, pp.178–80)<br />

(a) Semi-legendary Afrighids of Kath, possibly from the fourth century<br />

on; the first Shah with an Islamic name is the seventeenth, Abdallah b.<br />

T.r.k.s.batha, early ninth century; his successors were:<br />

Mansur ibn Abdallah<br />

Iraq ibn Mansur, reigning in 898<br />

Muhammad ibn Iraq, reigning in 921<br />

Abdallah ibn Ashkam, reigning c.944<br />

Ahmad ibn Muhammad, reigning in 967<br />

Muhammad ibn Ahmad, died in 995<br />

Mamunid conquest<br />

(b) The Mamunids of Urgench, 995–1017<br />

1.Mamun I ibn Muhammad, 995–97<br />

2.Ali ibn Mamun, 997–1009<br />

3.Mamun II ibn Mamun I, 1009–17<br />

Ghaznavid conquest<br />

Appendix 1 319<br />

(c) Ghaznavid governors with the title of Khwarazmshahs, 1017–41<br />

1.Altuntash Hajib, Ghaznavid commander, 1017–32<br />

2.Harun ibn Altuntash, similar function, later independent and assuming<br />

the title Khwarazmshah, 1032–34<br />

3.Ismail ibn Khandan ibn Altuntash, 1034–41<br />

Conquest of Khwarazm by the Oghuz Yabghu, Shah Malik ibn Ali of<br />

Jand, probably receiving the title Khwarazmshah from Masud of<br />

Ghazna.

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