thumb|right|Portraits of the Abbasid Caliphs al-Mu'tazz (d. 869), al-Muqtadir (d. 932), the Samanid ruler Bilgetegin, with the Ghaznavid rulers Mahmud (d. 1030) and Bahram Shah (1152). From the genealogy (silsilanāma), "Cream of Histories" (Zübdet-üt Tevarih). Ottoman Turkish manuscript created in Baghdad, dated 1598
