Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia


•	Later campaigns extended it along the plains
	of the Ganges to Bengal.

•	A lieutenant to Muhammad, Qutb-ud-Din
	Aibak, later formed a new state, with its
	capital at Delhi on the Ganges plain.

•	The succeeding dynasties, the sultans of
	Delhi, were military states.

•	Their authority was limited by factional strife
	and dependence upon Hindu subordinates.

•	They ruled much of north-central India for
	the next 300 years.