Ilig Khan Nasr
Kara-Khanid ruler of Kashgar (d. 1012)
About 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 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. 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.
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