Al-Sultan azam, star below and above // Taj / al-Daula / Khusru / Malik within a dotted border. 15mm, 3.27 grams. Lahore mint. Tye 121. 

Scarce type.

Khusru Malik (reigned 1160–1186) was the last ruler of the Ghaznavid dynasty, which had once controlled a vast empire from Ghazni to northern India. By his reign, the Ghaznavids had lost most of their territories and were confined mainly to Lahore and the Punjab. He struggled against the rising Ghurid dynasty, but in 1186 Lahore was captured by Muʿizz al-Dīn Muhammad of Ghor, who took Khusrū Malik prisoner and later executed him, bringing an end to the Ghaznavid line.