HIST 9A Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Prithviraj Chauhan, Ferdowsi, Total War
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Al(cid:271)eru(cid:374)i a(cid:374)d firdausi (cid:449)ere i(cid:374) muha(cid:373)(cid:373)ad of gaza(cid:374)i"s (cid:272)ourt. Loots and plunders rather than making an empire. Multan/sindh was taken over by muslims in 7th century but northern india was not taken over until muhammad of gazani came. Cannot understand as just a muslim/hindu conflict. No(cid:449) people (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374) of turkish origi(cid:374)s. muha(cid:373)(cid:373)ad of gaza(cid:374)i is a (cid:862)musli(cid:373) fa(cid:374)ati(cid:272)(cid:863) (cid:271)ut hates idolatory. Alberuni gives many accounts of india at the time: glory to muslim leader to kill infidels so they could have exaggerated numbers of people lkilled to make muslim rulers more gloriful. Muhammad of gazani went for pillaging in temples (wealth was usually stored there), was not interested in fighting hindus all that much. Moves east to north india in ad 1012. Muhammad of gazani wanted a krishna temple destroyed and thought that in gazani that temple would have taken 200 years to build. Muhammad gave off an aura of (cid:862)total (cid:449)arfare(cid:863).
