Baha al-Din Sam III

Baha al-Din Sam III
Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty
Reign	1212–1213
Predecessor	Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud
Successor	Ala al-Din Atsiz
Born	Ghor
Died	1213
House	Ghurid
Father	Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud
Religion	Sunni Islam

Baha al-Din Sam III (Persian: بهاء الدین سام‎‎), was Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1212 to 1213. He was the son and successor of Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud.

Biography

Baha al-Din Sam III was the son of Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud, who was assassinated in 1212. After Ghiyath's assassination, Baha al-Din Sam III ascended the Ghurid throne. One year later, however, he was carried by the Khwarazmian-Shahs to Khwarezm.^[1] He was then succeeded by his relative Ala al-Din Atsiz.

References

↑ The Iranian World, C.E. Bosworth, The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 5, ed. J. A. Boyle, John Andrew Boyle, (Cambridge University Press, 1968), 161-170.

Sources

C. Edmund, Bosworth (2001). "GHURIDS". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
Bosworth, C. E. (1968). "The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000–1217)". In Frye, R. N. The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–202. ISBN 0-521-06936-X.

Preceded by Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud	Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty 1212–1213	Succeeded by Ala al-Din Atsiz

Ghurid dynasty

In Ghur (before 879–1215)	Amir Suri Muhammad ibn Suri Abu Ali ibn Muhammad Abbas ibn Shith Muhammad ibn Abbas Qutb al-din Hasan Izz al-Din Husayn Sayf al-Din Suri Baha al-Din Sam I Ala al-Din Husayn Sayf al-Din Muhammad Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud Baha al-Din Sam III Ala al-Din Atsiz Ala al-Din Ali

In Ghazni (1151-1152 and 1173–1215)	Ala al-Din Husayn Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad Ala al-Din Muhammad Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud Baha al-Din Sam III Ala al-Din Atsiz Ala al-Din Ali

In Bamiyan (1152–1215)	Fakhr al-Din Masud Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Masud Abbas ibn Muhammad Baha al-Din Sam II Jalal al-Din Ali

Minor domains	Ala al-Din Ali (Nishapur, 1200-1204) Taj al-Din Zangi (Sarakhs, 1200-1204)

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