Editing Sialkot (section)

===Medieval===
Around the year 1000, Sialkot began to decline in importance as the nearby city of Lahore rose to prominence.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgbsAAAAMAAJ&q=%22hindu+Shahi%22+sialkot|title=Man & Development|date=2007|publisher=Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development}}</ref> Following to fall of [[Lahore]] to the [[Ghaznavid Empire]] in the early 11th century, the capital of the [[Hindu Shahi]] empire was shifted from Lahore to Sialkot.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bosworth|first1=C. Edmund|title=Historic Cities of the Islamic World|date=2007|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9047423836|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgawCQAAQBAJ&q=Lahore&pg=PA305|access-date=26 December 2017}}</ref> Ghaznavid expansion in northern Punjab encouraged local [[Khokhar]] tribes to stop paying tribute to the Rajas of Jammu.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75FlxDhZWpwC&q=ghuri+fort+sialkot&pg=PA238|title=Al-Hind the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest : 11Th-13th Centuries|last=Wink|first=André|date=1997|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9004102361}}</ref>

Sialkot became a part of the medieval [[Sultanate of Delhi]] after [[Muhammad of Ghor|Muhammad Ghauri]] conquered [[Punjab region|Punjab]] in 1185.<ref name=":5" /> Ghauri was unable to conquer the larger city of [[Lahore]], but deemed Sialkot important enough to warrant a garrison.<ref name=mehta>{{cite book|last1=Mehta|first1=Jaswant Lal|title=Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India, Volume 1|date=1980|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd|isbn=9788120706170|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iUk5k5AN54sC&q=Khusrau+Malik+sialkot&pg=PA76|access-date=3 June 2017}}</ref><ref name=dhillon/> He also extensively repaired the [[Sialkot Fort]] around the time of his conquest of Punjab,<ref name=":8" /> and left the region in charge of Hussain Churmali while he returned to [[Ghazni]].<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTyRYXtxMSEC&q=+sialkot&pg=PA100|title=The history of Hindustan. Vol. 1|last=Firishtah|first=Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī|date=2003|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=9788120819948}}</ref> Sialkot was then quickly laid siege to by Khokhar tribesmen,<ref name=":15">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzZFUcDpDzsC&q=medieval+sialkot&pg=PA90|title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval India|last=Khan|first=Iqtidar Alam|date=25 April 2008|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810855038}}</ref> and [[Khusrau Malik]],<ref name=mehta/> the last Ghaznavid sultan, though he was defeated during Ghauri's return to Punjab in 1186.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":15" />

In the 1200s, Sialkot was the only area of western Punjab that was ruled by the [[Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)|Mamluk Sultanate]] in Delhi.<ref name=":16">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xi3cAAAAMAAJ&q=sialkot+mongols|title=A military history of medieval India|last=Sandhu|first=Gurcharn Singh|date=January 2003|publisher=Vision Books|isbn=9788170945253}}</ref> The area had been captured by the [[Ghurid dynasty|Ghauri]] prince [[Taj al-Din Yildiz|Yildiz]], but was recaptured by Sultan [[Iltutmish]] in 1217.<ref name=":16" /> Around 1223, [[Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu]], the last king of the [[Khwarazmian dynasty]] of Central Asia that had fled invasion of [[Genghis Khan]] there, briefly captured Sialkot and Lahore,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18EKAQAAIAAJ&q=sialkot|title=History of medieval India (1000–1740 A.D.)|last=Sharma|first=L. P.|date=1987|publisher=Konark Publishers|isbn=9788122000429}}</ref> before being driven out by Iltutmish's forces towards [[Uch Sharif]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgawCQAAQBAJ&q=Lahore&pg=PA305|title=Historic Cities of the Islamic World|last=Bosworth|first=C. Edmund|date=26 December 2007|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789047423836}}</ref> During the 13th century, [[Imam Ali-ul-Haq]], Sialkot's most revered [[Sufism|Sufi]] warrior-saint,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_wbAAAAMAAJ&q=Imam+Ali-ul-Haq+premier+saint|title=Hand Book of Important Places in West Pakistan|last=Hasan|first=Masudul|date=1965|publisher=Pakistan Social Service Foundation}}</ref> arrived from [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]], and began his missionary work in the region that successfully converted large numbers of Hindus to Islam, thereby transforming Sialkot into a largely Muslim city.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSRuAAAAMAAJ&q=Imam+Ali+sialkot+convert|title=Pakistan Pictorial|date=1986|publisher=Pakistan Publications}}</ref> The saint later died in battle, and is revered as a martyr.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HlQIAAAAQAAJ&q=sialkot+jehangir&pg=PA129|title=The Arāīs̲h-i-maḥfil: Or, The Ornament of the Assembly|last=Afsos|first=Sher ʻAlī Jaʻfarī|date=1882|publisher=J. W. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press}}</ref>

Sialkot became capital of Punjabi warlord and ruler [[Jasrat|Jasrat Khokhar]]'s kingdom in the early 15th century.<ref name=Lal/><ref name=":13">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4C9EDwAAQBAJ&q=sialkot&pg=PT76|title=Early Nineteenth-Century Panjab|last1=Grewal|first1=J. S.|last2=Banga|first2=Indu|date=22 December 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781317336945}}</ref> Jasrat Khokhar conquered most of Punjab from the Delhi sultanate in a series of campaigns between 1421 and 1442. He also conquered [[Jammu]] after defeating its ruler Bhim Dev in 1423.<ref name=Lal/> This was the golden period of Sialkot. Later, Sultan [[Bahlul Lodi]] captured the city after Jasrat Khokhar's death and granted custodianship of the city to Jammu's Raja Biram Dev, after he helped Bahlol in defeating the [[Khokhar|Khokhars]].<ref name=":13" /> Sialkot was sacked by [[Malik Tazi Bhat]] of Kashmir, who attacked Sialkot after the governor of Punjab, Tatar Khan, had left the city undefended during one of his military campaigns.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thSltS4Xg4MC&q=medieval+sialkot&pg=PA211|title=Medieval Kashmir|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distri}}</ref>

Sialkot was captured by armies of the Babur in 1520,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sxhAtCflwOMC&q=sialkot+1524&pg=PA226|title=A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century|last1=Ahmed|first1=Farooqui Salma|date=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=9788131732021|access-date=3 June 2017}}</ref> when the Mughal commander Usman Ghani Raza advanced towards Delhi during the initial conquest of [[Babur]].  Babur recorded a battle with [[Gujjar]] raiders, who had attacked Sialkot, and allegedly mistreated its inhabitants.<ref>{{blockquote|29th December: We dismounted at Sialkot. If one enters Hindustan the [[Jat]]s and [[Gujjar]]s always pour down in countless hordes from hill and plain for loot of bullocks and buffalo. These ill-omened peoples are senseless oppressors. Previously, their deeds did not concern us because the territory was an enemy's. But they did the same senseless deeds after we had captured it. When we reached Sialkot, they swooped on the poor and needy folk who were coming out of the town to our camp and stripped them bare. I had the witless brigands apprehended, and ordered a few of them to be cut to pieces.''Babur Nama'' page 250 published by Penguin}}</ref> In 1525–1526, Alam Khan, uncle of Sultan [[Ibrahim Lodi]], invaded from Afghanistan, and was able to capture Sialkot with the aid of Mongol forces.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip5CAAAAcAAJ&q=Alem+Khan&pg=PA77|title=History of the Afghans|last=al-Harawī|first=Niʻmatallāh|date=1829|publisher=Oriental Translation-Fund}}</ref>