Ghazna

Ghazna (Ghazni), in eastern Afghanistan, was the capital of the Ghaznavid dynasty (10th-12th centuries), whose ruler Mahmud of Ghazna made it a wealthy centre of Persian culture and learning. The scholar al-Biruni (d. c. 1050) was attached to Mahmud's court there, and the Sufi al-Hujwiri (d. c. 1072), author of the Kashf al-Mahjub, came from the Ghazna region.