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Name the Muslim Invader who destroyed Nalanda University?

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Nalanda was very likely ransacked and destroyed by an army of the Mamluk Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate under Bakhtiyar Khilji in c. 1200 CE. Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji was the military general of Qutb-ud-Din Aibak. He burned Nalanda University and Vikramshila University in 1193.
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