Shams al-Mo'ali Abol-hasan Ghaboos ibn Wushmgir
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Qabus ibn Wushmagir is a city in and the capital of Gonbad-e-Qabus County, in the province of Golestān in the northeast of Iran...
was built for him as his tomb, and he is the subject of the Qabus nama
Qabus nama
Qabus nama or Qabus nameh [variations: Qabusnamah, Qabousnameh, Ghabousnameh, or Ghaboosnameh, in Persian: قابوسنامه, book of Qabus] is a major work of Persian literature from the eleventh century Qabus nama or Qabus nameh [variations: Qabusnamah, Qabousnameh, Ghabousnameh, or Ghaboosnameh, in...
, a major work of Persian literature from the eleventh century, which was written by his grandson.
His wife was the daughter of Mahmud of Ghazni
Mahmud of Ghazni
Mahmud of Ghazni , actually ', was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid dynasty who ruled from 997 until his death in 1030 in the eastern Iranian lands. Mahmud turned the former provincial city of Ghazni into the wealthy capital of an extensive empire which covered most of today's Iran,...
of the Ghaznavid dynasty
Ghaznavid Empire
The Ghaznavids were a Persianate Muslim dynasty of Turkic slave origin which existed from 975 to 1187 and ruled much of Persia, Transoxania, and the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. The Ghaznavid state was centered in Ghazni, a city in modern-day Afghanistan...
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External links
- Richard Frye's Notes on the Renaissance of the 10th and 11th Centuries in Eastern Iran, Central Asiatic Journal I (1955) 137-143.
- R. N. Frye (1975). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume Four: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. ISBN 0-521-20093-8