Sabuktigin

Sabuktigin

Abu Mansur Sabuktigin (Persian: ابو منصور سبکتگین‎) (ca 942 – August 997), also spelled as Sabuktagin, Sabuktakin, Sebüktegin and Sebük Tigin, is regarded as the founder of the Ghaznavid Empire in what is now Afghanistan during the late 10th century. He was a former Turkish slave and later son-in-law of Alptigin who seized Ghazna (modern Ghazni Province in Afghanistan) in a political fallout for the throne of the Samanids of Bukhara.