Aram Shah

Aram Shah was the second and only about a year ruling sultan of the 13th century slave dynasty ruling the Sultanate of Delhi .

biography

The life and position of Aram Shah at court is largely unclear - some consider him the son, others the brother of Qutb-ud-Din Aibak (r. 1206-1210). Minhaj-i-Seraij , the most important chronicler of the 13th century, on the other hand, clearly states that Aibak had only three daughters, and only Abu 'l-Fazl makes him Aibak's brother some three hundred years later. Modern researchers usually deny him any relationship to Aibak.

After Qutb-ud-Din Aibak's death, the nobles of the empire elected him as his successor in Lahore in 1210 , but he proved to be weak; so moved Shams-ud-din Iltutmish , the then governor of Budaun , at the head of an army to Delhi, where he was able to defeat Aram Shah in 1211th The further fate of Aram Shah is in the dark.

literature

• Peter Jackson: The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History. , Cambridge University Press 1999, ISBN 978-0-521-54329-3 .
• André Wink: Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol. II - The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest 11th-13th centuries. Brill, Leiden 2002, ISBN 978-0-391-04173-8 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Qutb-ud-Din Aibak	Sultan of Delhi ( slave dynasty ) 1210–1211	Shams-ud-din Iltutmish