Majlis Alam ( bn, মজলিস/মজলিশ আলম, Mojlis/Mojlish Alom, fa, ), was a minister (Dastur) of Srihat (Sylhet) from 1472 to 1476, during the reign of

Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah ( fa, شمس الدین یوسف شاه, bn, শামসউদ্দীন ইউসুফ শাহ) was the Sultan of Bengal from 1474 to 1481. He belonged to the Ilyas Shahi dynasty and was the successor of his father, ...

, the

Sultan of Bengal The Sultanate of Bengal (Middle Bengali language, Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা ''Shahī Baṅgala'', Classical Persian: ''Saltanat-e-Bangālah'') was an empire based in Bengal for much of the 14th, 15th and 16th centu ...

of the

Ilyas Shahi dynasty The Ilyas Shahi dynasty ( bn, ইলিয়াস শাহী খান্দান, fa, الیاس شاهی خاندان) was the first independent dynasty to set the foundations of the late medieval Sunni Muslim Sultanate of Bengal. Hailing ...

Background

Alam was the son of Musa ibn Haji Amir Khan. According to the

Rajmala ''Rajmala'' is a chronicle of the Kings of Tripura, written in Bengali verse in the 15th century under Dharma Manikya I. Overview The ''Rajmala'' chronicles the history of the Manikya kings of Tripura. While it serves as an invaluable sou ...

, his grandfather, Haji Amir Khan, was an army commander for Sultan

Rukunuddin Barbak Shah Ruknuddīn Bārbak Shāh ( bn, রোকনউদ্দীন বারবক শাহ, fa, ; r. 1459–1474) was the son and successor of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah. Initially appointed as the governor of Satgaon during the reign of his fa ...

and governed parts of Tripura. Majlis Alam was a common rank and title given by the Sultanate to a number of people and so the minister's real name is unknown.

Life

Alam was known to have established many mosques throughout Sylhet. In 1472, he erected a replica of Pandua's

Adina Mosque The Adina Mosque is a former mosque in Malda District, West Bengal, India. It was the largest such structure in the Indian subcontinent and was built during the Bengal Sultanate as a royal mosque by Sikandar Shah, who is also buried inside. T ...

in Chowkidekhi (Chowkidighi Mahalla). This mosque would be destroyed by a later ruler of Sylhet, Isfandiyar Khan Beg, in the 1660s. The inscriptions here refers to himself as ''the Great Majlis, the Minister, the Messenger towards goodness'' ( ar, مجلس العظم المعظم الدستور الساعي في الخيرات والمبرات المجلس الأعلى, Majlis al-ʿAzam al-Muʿazzam al-Dastūr, al-Sāʿi fil-Khayrāt wal-Mubarrāt al-Majlis al-Aʿlā). In 1476, Alam and his father also constructed the

Goyghor Mosque Goyghor Masjid, ( bn, গয়ঘর খোজার মসজিদ, ar, مسجد الخواجه), also known as the Goyghor Historical Khwaja's Mosque, is an ancient mosque located in the village of Goyghor in Mostafapur Union, Moulvibazar Di ...

in present-day

Moulvibazar Moulvibazar ( bn, মৌলভীবাজার) is a town in north-eastern Bangladesh just south of Sylhet. It is the capital of Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila and Moulvibazar District, and is located on the banks of the Manu River, Tripura, Manu R ...

. He may have also constructed a small mosque in Choti Dargah in

Hazrat Pandua Pandua ( bn, পাণ্ডুয়া), also historically known as Hazrat Pandua ( bn, হজরত পাণ্ডুয়া) and later Firuzabad ( bn, ফিরোজাবাদ), is a ruined city in the Malda district of the Indian sta ...

in 1479 as the builder of that mosque goes by "Majlis al-Majālis Majlis Aʿlā".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alam, Majlis Rulers of Sylhet 15th-century rulers in Asia 15th-century Indian Muslims Bengal Sultanate officers

Background

Life

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