A Slave to His Slave
The Sultan Who Conquered Empires and Surrendered to LoveBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 2m
About this audiobook
What if the thing about you that nobody has ever remarked on is the only thing that was ever going to matter?
You know the feeling of being sorted before you are seen—of being priced by people who never looked closely, and carrying that number around for years afterwards.
A thousand years ago, a boy was sold in Ghazni. Under the law, he was property. Thirty years later, the most powerful man between Baghdad and the Ganges gave him a province.
This is the true story of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni and Malik Ayaz: narrative history grounded in documented record—the man who crowned a slave and broke the temple at Somnath in the same decade.
• Feel what it is to be looked at all the way down by someone who had every reason not to bother
• Watch an empire built by force collapse while one act of recognition outlasts it by a thousand years
This is a book for anyone who has ever been quietly excellent where no one was watching. Open the first page. The rest will find you.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. The Poet's Bargain
2Prologue
1412. The Weight of a Crown
31. The Auction Block
1513. A Slave to His Slave
42. A Son Watches His Father Rule
1614. The Temple at the Edge of the Sea
53. The Brother He Could Not Forgive
1715. The Idol Breaker
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64. The First Sultan
1816. A Kingdom Too Vast to Hold
75. The Boy from Georgia
1917. The Sickness in the Blood
86. The Night No One Was Watching
2018. What Ayaz Could Not Save
97. Something in His Eyes
2119. The Sultan's Last Night
108. The Court That Watched
2220. What Outlives an Empire
119. Seventeen Roads to India
23Epilogue
1210. What Gold Cannot Buy
2421. Author's Note
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