page_title: Malik Ayaz
hierarchical_section_title: Malik Ayaz
caption_attribution_description: English: Mahmoud &amp; Ayaz, and Shah Abbas. The Sultan (in red robe) is to the right, shaking the hand of the sheykh, with Ayaz (in green robe) standing behind him. The figure to his right is Shah Abbas I who reigned about 600 years later.
context_page_description: Malik Ayaz, son of Aymāq Abu'n-Najm, was a slave from Georgia who rose to the rank of officer and general in the army of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni. Malik Ayaz's love of Mahmud inspired poems and stories, while local Muslim historians and Sufis commemorate Malik Ayaz due to his unwavering feudalistic loyalty to Mahmud Ghaznavi.
context_section_description: Malik Ayaz (Persian: ملک ایاز), son of Aymāq Abu'n-Najm, was a slave from Georgia who rose to the rank of officer and general in the army of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni (also known as Mahmud Ghaznavi). Malik Ayaz's love of Mahmud inspired poems and stories, while local Muslim historians and Sufis commemorate Malik Ayaz due to his unwavering feudalistic loyalty to Mahmud Ghaznavi.
caption: Mahmud and Ayaz
  The Sultan is to the right, shaking the hand of the sheykh, with Ayaz standing behind him. The figure to his right is Shah Abbas I who reigned about 600 years later.
  Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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