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Ibrahim Adil Shah II

Ibrahim Adil Shah
Sultan
A portrait of Ibrahim Adil Shah II
6th Sultan of Bijapur
Reign1580 – 12 September 1627
PredecessorAli Adil Shah I
SuccessorMohammed Adil Shah
Bornc. 1570
Died12 September 1627 (aged 56-57)
Bijapur
Burial
SpouseChand Sultana (daughter of Ibrahim Qutb Shah)
Kamal Khatun
Taj Sultan
Sundar Mahal
IssueDurvesh Badshah
Sultan Sulaiman
Muhammad Adil Shah
Khizar Shah
Zahra Sultana
Burhan
Sultan Begum
Fatima Sultana
Names
Abdul Muzaffar Ibrahim Adil Shah Jagadguru Badshah
DynastyAdil Shahi dynasty
FatherTahamasp
MotherHaji Badi Sahiba Begum
ReligionSunni Islam[1]

Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1570 – 12 September 1627) was Sultan of the Sultanate of Bijapur and a member of the Adil Shahi dynasty. Under his reign the sultanate had its greatest period[2] as he extended its frontier as far south as Mysore. He was a skilful administrator, artist, poet[3] and a generous patron of the arts. He reverted to the Sunni orthodoxy of Islam,[4] but remained tolerant of other religions, including Christianity. However, during his reign high-ranking Shiite immigrants became unwelcome[5] and in 1590, he ordered the confinement of criers who read the khutba in the Shia form.[6] The Adil Shahis under his rule left a tradition of cosmopolitan culture and artistic patronage whose architectural remains are to be seen in the capital city of Bijapur.

  1. ^ Farooqui Salma Ahmed, A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, (Dorling Kindersley, 2011), 176.
  2. ^ Sen, Sailendra (2013). A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. p. 119. ISBN 978-9-38060-734-4.
  3. ^ Schimmel, Annemarie (2004). Burzine K. Waghmar (ed.). The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture. Corinne Attwood, translator. Reaktion Books. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-86189-185-3.
  4. ^ Meri, Josef W., ed. (1 November 2005). Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. p. 108. ISBN 9780415966900.
  5. ^ Stephen P. Blake (11 February 2013). Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 9781139620321.
  6. ^ Richard Maxwell Eaton (8 March 2015). The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India. Princeton University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9781400868155.

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