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Seljuqs aren't comparable to the Delhi Sultanates or the Mughals. The Seljuq Turks also used Persian as their Court language but they have never forgotten their Turkish roots. Seljuqs are the main reason why Turkey exists today. Seljuq have never Persianized Anatolia, they Turkified it. Maulana...

I don't understand why the Turkic and Afghan rulers of the Indian subcontinent adopted the Persian language as the court language for their dynasties instead their own native tongue. Do you think that the Muslim invasion of India was actually more "Persian" than Turkic or Afghan? Were Persians...

Mahmud Ghaznavis mother was Persian and they used Persian as court language. He and his sons were totally hated by the Turkmen nomads. So much that they killed his son during a battle

I I think that Ghori could be a mixed Turko-Iranian like Mahmud Ghaznavi but I think that the was either a Tajik or a Pashtun because he has a poetry where he says that the has no sons but thousand of Turkic slaves whom he consider as his sons. Aibak and Iltutmish were definitely Turkic

Yeah but Timur himself had no connections with Ghengis Khan. His Mother tongue was Chagatai Turkic which is closely related to the Uzbek language. Wikipedia says that this tribe was originally Mongolic that became Turkified but that doesn't count in my eyes.

Well Ghilzais were anythjng than pure Turks and that's also the reason why they became Pashtuns at the end. The Pashtun tribes no matter if Durranis or Ghilzais are all mixed with their neighbours but the core element in both tribes were Eastern Iranian peoples and that's also the reason why...

Sorry but I have never heared that. Ghilzais seem to take pride in being Pashtuns but I have never seen it that a Ghilzai feels connections with other Turkics and I was on many Afghan forums. I find it actually strange because Uzbeks also don't feel any connections with Mongols although their...

Ghilzais follow the Pashtunwali and speak an Eastern Iranian language today. They have nothing to do with other Turkics as they speak an Eastern Iranian language and belong to the Pashtun ethnic group. The Aryans themselves were also steppe nomads like the Turks but that still doesn't change the...

The case of the Khiljis is actually very similar to the case of the "Mongol" Khanates after Ghengis Khan death. The Golden Horde or the Chagatai Khanates (from which the Mughals descendent) had nothing to do anymore with Mongols and were completely Turkiczed. The Khiljis had also nothing to do...

Turkmenistans regime is too autocratic and absolutely undemocratic. It's actually like a second North Korea. I find this whole glorification about "Turkmenbasy" totally creepy. Of course I have nothing against the place and the people from where my ancestors came from but I really don't like the...

Interresting to know that the Turkic nobility looked down on the Khiljis. Well they mixed so much with Pashtuns that they became Pashtuns themselves.