Ikhtiyar al-Din ( Ikhtiyāru ’d-Dīn), meaning "appointed/ chosen of the Islamic religion/ faith/ creed". It may refer to: Ikhtiyar al-Din Ai-Taq (fl. 1161–1165), amir in western Khurasan following the decline of the Seljuks Ikhtiyar al-Din Hasan ibn Ghafras (died 1192), vizier of the Seljuk Sultan Kilij Arslan II Ikhtiyaruddin Ghazi Shah (fl. 1349–1352), sultan of Sonargaon Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji (died 1206), Afghan soldier Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Iuzbak (fl. 1251–1257), ruler of Bengal Ikhtiyar al-Din also known as Igder – architect to Kublai Khan Arabic masculine given names