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Ali Adil Shah
Ali Adil Shah I ( fa, ; 1558–1579) was the fifth Sultan of Adil Shahi dynasty, Bijapur Sultanate. On the day of his coronation Ali abandoned the Sunni practices and reintroduced the Shia, Shi’ah Khutbah and other practices. The Persian people, Persian doctors of religion were granted full freedom to preach the Shia, Shi’ah doctrine and were paid by the State for their missionary activities. The new Sultan restored back to power the Afāqi, Afāqis while relegating the Deccanis to a position of insignificance. He subverted all the dogmatic experiments which his Ibrahim Adil Shah I, father had practiced. Marriage He married the famous woman warrior Chand Bibi, Chand Sultana, daughter of Ahmednagar Sultanate, Nizam Shahis of Ahmednagar, Ahmadnagar. Reign During Ali's reign Bijapur district, Karnataka, Bijapur and Vijayanagara Empire, Vijayanagar came very close to each other and Ali actually paid a visit to Vijayanagara, Vijayanagar City, where Aliya Rama Raya, Ramaraya r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Adil Shah I
Ibrahim Adil Shah I ( fa, ; 1534–1558) was a Sultan and later Shah of the Indian kingdom of Bijapur. He succeeded his elder brother, Mallu Adil Shah, through the machinations of the Afaqi faction at the court. He was the first Adil Shahi ruler to assume the royal title of Shah. Faith Having a strong penchant for Sunni Islam, the religion of most Deccani Muslims—on his accession he deleted the names of the twelve Shi'ah Imams from the Khutbah, discontinued previous Shia practices and restored the exercise of the Sunni Islamic practices. He deviated from the traditions of his predecessors and introduced many innovations in the political and religious policies. He degraded most of the afaqi faction (with a few exceptions), and in their place enrolled the Deccani (including the Marathas and Habashis) to the services, retaining only four hundred afaqi troops as his bodyguard. Consequently, he brought Sunni Muslims to power and ended Shia domination by dismissing them from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
