Ilig Khan Nasr

The Kara-Khanid Ilig Khan Nasr (left) facing Mahmud of Ghazni riding an elephant in 1017–1018. Jami al-Tawarikh , 1306-14 (Edinburgh Or Ms 20)

Abu'l Husain Nasr ^[1] known by his title Ilig Khan, also Ilig Khan Nasr (died 1012), was a ruler of the Kara-Khanids. He was a son of Ali Arslan Khan.

Ilig Khan conquered Bukhara from the Samanids in 999, bringing an end to that rival dynasty. ^[2] He then reached an agreement with Mahmud of Ghazni, in which they agreed to partition former Samanid territory along the Oxus river. ^{[2] [3]} With this agreement, the north-eastern lands of Islam came under the power of two Turkish Empires, the Kara-Khanids and the Ghaznavids, paving the way for Turkish immigration from Inner Central Asia. ^[2] He died in 1012-1013 and was succeeded by his brother Ahmad Tughan Khan. ^[4]

References

1. Haig 1928 , p. 13
2. Bosworth, C. E. (1998). History of Civilizations of Central Asia. UNESCO. p. 106. ISBN   978-92-3-103467-1. An agreement was reached at this point with the Karakhanid Ilig Nasr b. Ali making the Oxus the boundary between the two empires [the Karakhanids and the Ghaznavids], for the shrunken Samanid amirate came to an inglorious end when the Ilig occupied Bukhara definitively in 999
3. Seyfeydinovich, Asimov, Muhammad; Edmund, Bosworth, Clifford (31 December 1998). History of civilizations of Central Asia: The Age of Achievement: A.D. 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century. UNESCO Publishing. p. 147. ISBN   978-92-3-103467-1.
4. Nāẓim, Muhammad (1971). The Life and Times of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna. CUP Archive. p. 52.

Bibliography

• Haig, W. (1928). The Cambridge History of India: Turks and Afghans, edited by W. Haig. Vol. III. University Press.