| Toghrul |
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| Reign | 1052 – 1053 |
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| Predecessor | Abd al-Rashid |
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| Successor | Farrukh-Zad |
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| Born | ? |
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| Died | c. 1053 |
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| Father | ? |
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| Mother | ? |
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| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Toghrul of Ghazna (full name: Qiwam ad-Dawlah Abu Said Toghrul), was a Turkic slave general and usurper of the Ghaznavid throne. He was originally a ghulam in the service of the Ghaznavid Empire. Following his usurpation of the Ghaznavid throne from Abd al-Rashid and massacre of eleven Ghaznavid royal princes, he was known as the accursed, the inauspicious, the arrogant and the contemptible.