"If Mahmud . . . had gone to India once more, he would have brought Wlder his sword all the btihmans of Hind who, in that vast land, are the cause of the continuance of the laws of infidelity and of the strength of idolators, he would have cut off the heads of two hundred or three hundred thousand Hindu chiefs. He would not have returned his "Hindu-slaughtering" sword to its scabbard until the whole of Hind had accepted Islam. For Mahmiid was a Shafiite, and according to Imam Shafii the decree for Hindus is "either death or Islam"-that is to say, they should either be put to death or embrace Islam. It is not lawful to accept jizyi from Hindus as they have neither a prophet nor a revealed book."
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Ziauddin Barani, Fatawa-i-Jahandari, quoted in Ainslie T. Embree - Sources of Indian Tradition_ Volume One_ From the Beginning to 1800. 1-Penguin Books (1991) 441 ff also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.
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Mahmud of Ghazni
Mahmud of Ghazni (محمود غزنوی; November 971 – 30 April 1030), also known as Mahmūd-i Zābulī (محمود زابلی), was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire. He conquered the eastern portions of the Persian empire including, modern Afghanistan, and the northwestern Indian subcontinent (modern Pakistan) from 997 to his death in 1030. Mahmud turned the former provincial city of Ghazna into the wealthy capital of an extensive empire that covered most of today's Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Pak
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