SULTAN MAHMUD AND AYAZ ABU-NAJM THE CALUMNY OF IRANIAN SOURCES Sacred turned profane by propaganda Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi was a puritan Muslim. He is termed a Hanafi, termed also as a Karramite, and even a Shafite in the school of Islamic thought, but essentially he was a kind of Muslim, whose only reference was the … Continue reading SULTAN MAHMUD AND AYAZ ABU-NAJM – THE CALUMNY OF IRANIAN SOURCES