Hurra-yi Khuttali

Hurra-yi Khuttali^[a] (Persian: حره ختلی; fl. 1006 c. 1006 – c. 1040) was a Ghaznavid princess, considered as the most prominent woman in the political stage of the Ghaznavid bureaucracy. She was the daughter of Sabuktigin, founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty, and was married to two Ma'munid rulers of Khwarazm, Abu Ali Hasan and Ma'mun II. Her marriages were a direct cause for the annexation of Khwarazm by her brother, Mahmud of Ghazni. In 1030, upon Mahmud's death, she wrote a letter to her favourite nephew, Mas'ud, urging him to claim the throne from his brother, Muhammad, who was deemed unfit to rule the empire. Without her insistence and literary competence in composing her letter, Mas'ud may have never claimed the throne. She is last mentioned in 1040, leaving Ghazna for India, her ultimate fate being unknown.

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