Minhaj-i-Siraj was a chronicler during the rule of ______.

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·         Minhaj-i-Siraj was a chronicler during the rule of Sultan Iltutmish. He was born in 1193 in the region of Ghur, Afghanistan. He migrated to Ucch and then to Delhi in 1227. He was the principal historian for the Mamluk Sultanate of Delhi in northern India.

·         He wrote the Tabaqat-i Nasiri (1260 CE) for Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah of Delhi. The Tabaqat-i Nasiri is an important source of information on the history of medieval India. It provides details on the political, social, and economic conditions of the time.

·         Iltutmish - third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the former Ghurid territories in northern India. He was the first Muslim sovereign to rule from Delhi, and is thus considered the effective founder of the Delhi Sultanate.

·         Qutbuddin Aibak - was a Turkic general of the Ghurid emperor Muhammad Ghori. He was in charge of the Ghurid territories in northern India, and after Muhammad Ghori's assassination in 1206, he established the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526), and started the Mamluk dynasty, which ruled until 1290.

·         Ghiyasuddin Balban - was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi. Balban became the sultan of Delhi in 1266 after the death of Nasiruddin Mahmud.

Alauddin Khalji - was the second ruler of the Khalji dynasty, which ruled the Delhi Sultanate.