Bakhtiyar Khilji whose full name is Ikhtiyar Uddin Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji was a Turkish general. He was a member of the Muslim Khalji tribe. The Muslim Khalji tribe was engaged in the service of army chiefs who participated in almost all the occupation wars in the North East. Ikhtiyar Uddin Bakhtiyar Khalji was a Turkish by race and a fortune-seeker by profession.