Adil Shahi

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Gol Gumbaz , tomb of Sultan Mohammed Adil Shah (r. 1627–1657), in Bijapur

Adil Shahi was the name of the Shiite dynasty that ruled the central Indian sultanate of Bijapur from 1490 to 1686 . Bijapur was one of the five Dekkan sultanates that emerged from the crumbling Bahmani Sultanate from 1490 . The founder of the house Adil Shahi and first sultan of Bijapur, Yusuf Adil Shah, possibly descended from the Ottoman Sultan Murad II .

history

The Adil Shahis were the most powerful of the five Islamic rulers on the Deccan of the late 15th as well as in the 16th and 17th centuries. In alliance with three other sultanates, they defeated the southern Indian Hindu great Vijayanagar in the Battle of Talikota in 1565 ; afterwards they devastated parts of the region (e.g. the fort of Bankapura ). In 1609, the Adil Shahis subjugated the neighboring state of Bidar . Its end came in 1686, when the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb incorporated the Sultanate of Bijapur into his empire after a year-long siege of the capital.

Arts and Culture

Under their rule, Islamic culture flourished in Bijapur, where some of the most outstanding examples of Islamic architecture in India can still be found today. The Adil Shahis also promoted literature in Dakkhini , a dialect of Urdu influenced by the Deccan languages , as well as miniature painting and classical music.

The influence of the Sufis as reformers and writers grew in Bijapur over the centuries after the advance of Islam in the Deccan and reached its peak under the Adil Shahi dynasty.

List of Adil Shahi sultans

Ibrahim Rauza , mausoleum and mosque of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (r. 1580–1627)

literature

  • Richard Maxwell Eaton: Sufis of Bijapur. 1300-1700. Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1978.
  • Muhammad A. Nayeem: External Relations of the Bijapur Kingdom. 1489–1686 AD A Study in Diplomatic History . Published for Sayeedia Research Institute by Bright Publishers, Hyderabad, 1974.
  • Dinesh Chandra Verma: Social, Economic and Cultural History of Bijapur . Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, Delhi 1990 ( IAD oriental (original) Series 37, ZDB -ID 445101-6 ).

Web links

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