Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah

Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah ( Urdu قطب الدین مبارک شاہ) from the Khalji dynasty was ruler of the Sultanate of Delhi in what is now India from 1316 until his death in 1320 .

Mubarak Shah's coinage

biography

Mubarak Shah was the eldest son of Ala ud-Din Khalji . After the death of his father, however, his long-time general Malik Kafur usurped rule over the sultanate and set Shihab-ud-din Umar , the only 5- or 6-year-old younger brother of Mubarak Shah, as ruler. Both died in the spring of 1316, however, and so the way was clear for Mubarak Shah, who was only 17 or 18 years old. He filled the administration of the empire with new people from his environment, including a Hindu slave named Hassan, who was later to become his military leader and ultimately his murderer under the name of Khusrau Khan . By accepting the title of Khalifatullah , he considered himself to be the representative of Allah.

During his reign he implemented numerous reforms - for example, he pardoned thousands of officers arrested under his father; In addition, he abolished some arbitrary taxes and increased the wages and salaries of servants and civil servants as well as lawyers and Koran scholars ( ʿulamā ' ) .

Militarily, his army subjugated the wealthy Gujarat region ; personally he undertook a victorious campaign in 1317 against the empire of the Yadavas ruling from Devagiri on the Deccan , which was annexed and ceased to exist. A year later (1318) turned his army under the leadership of Khusrau Khan against the tributary but insubordinate, from Warangal from ruling Kakatiya dynasty, whose rulers Prataparudra paid a large ransom to end the siege of the city and promised all future imposed Pay tribute.

The armies of Khusrau Khan and Mubarak Shah met on the way back to Delhi, where Khusrau Khan had his ruler murdered, reverted to Hinduism and briefly seized the dignity of sultan. This was the end of the Khalji dynasty; shortly afterwards the rule of the Tughluq dynasty began .

literature

• Abraham Eraly: The Age of Wrath. A History of the Delhi Sultanate. Penguin Books 2015, ISBN 978-93-5118-658-8 .
• Kishori Saran Lal : History of the Khaljis (1290-1320). The Indian Press, Allahabad 1950, OCLC 685167335.

Web links

• Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah Khilji - Information (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Shihab-ud-din Umar	Sultan of Delhi ( Khilji Dynasty ) 1316–1320	Khusrau Khan