Abu'l-Harith Muhammad
{{Short description|Ma'munid ruler of Khwarazm in 1017}}
Abu'l-Harith Muhammad was ruler of Khwarazm for a period in 1017. The son of Abu al-Hasan Ali, he was the last member of the Iranian Ma'munid dynasty to rule Khwarazm.
In 1017, a young Muhammad was declared shah by the murderers of his uncle Abu'l Abbas Ma'mun. Mahmud of Ghazna, who had been Ma'mun's brother-in-law, was afforded a pretext for invading and a force was assembled in northern Khurasan. The Khwarazamis were unable to provide any effective resistance, and Muhammad was captured and imprisoned; Khwarazm therefore became a part of the Ghaznavid Empire. After taking vengeance on the Ma'mun's murderers Mahmud installed a Turk, the hajib Altun Tash, as governor of the province.
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- {{cite encyclopedia | article = ĀL-E MAʾMŪN | last = Bosworth | first = C. Edmund | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/l-e-mamun-a-short-lived-dynasty-of-iranian-rulers-in-karazm-385-408-995-1017 | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 7 | pages = 762–764 | publisher = C. Edmund Bosworth | year = 1984 | title = Archived copy | access-date = 2012-09-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120927054445/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/l-e-mamun-a-short-lived-dynasty-of-iranian-rulers-in-karazm-385-408-995-1017 | archive-date = 2012-09-27 | url-status = dead }}
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Category:11th-century monarchs in Asia
Category:11th-century Iranian people
Category:Year of death unknown
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