Muqabil Khan ( bn, মুকাবিল খান, fa, ), also known as Maqbul Khan ( bn, মকবুল খান, fa, ), was a wazir and sar-e-lashkar of
Srihat (Sylhet) in 1440. He was the
wazir
Wazir often refers to:
* Vizier or wazir, a high-ranking political advisor or minister
Wazir may also refer to:
Places
* Wazirabad, a City in Punjab, Pakistan
* Waziristan, a region in tribal belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
* Wazir Akbar K ...
of
Sylhet
Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate an ...
in 1440 during the reign of Sultan
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah of the restored
Ilyas Shahi dynasty. It is unknown when Khan's office started and how long he was wazir for. After his death, he was buried in
the dargah of
Shah Jalal, to the west of Jalal's tomb.
There is a gap between
Haydar Ghazi, wazir of Sylhet in the mid-fourteenth century, and Khan as the governors of Sylhet during that time is unknown. The next known successor of Muqabil Khan was
Khurshid Khan who governed Sylhet in the 1460s.
See also
*
Farhad Khan
*
History of Sylhet
*
Lutfullah Shirazi
References
Rulers of Sylhet
15th-century Indian monarchs
15th-century Indian Muslims
Bengal Sultanate officers
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