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Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (4 April 156511 January 1612) was the fifth sultan of the
Qutb Shahi dynasty
The Qutb Shahi dynasty also called as Golconda Sultanate (Persian: ''Qutb Shāhiyān'' or ''Sultanat-e Golkonde'') was a Persianate Shia Islam dynasty of Turkoman origin that ruled the sultanate of Golkonda in southern India. After the co ...
of Golkonda
Fort (Telugu: గోల్కొండ, romanized: ''Gōlkōnḍa'') is a historic fortress and ruined city located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was originally called Mankal. The fort was originally built by Kakatiya ruler Pratāparu ...
and founded the city of Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern Indi ...
, in South-central India
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and built its architectural centerpiece, the Charminar. He was an able administrator and his reign is considered one of the high points of the Qutb Shahi dynasty. He ascended to the throne in 1580 at the age of 15 and ruled for 31 years.Birth, early life and personal life
Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah was the third son of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali and Hindu Mother Bhagirathi. He was an accomplished poet and wrote his poetry in Persian,Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
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and Urdu
Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Annemarie Schimmel, ''Classical Urdu Literature from the Beginning to Iqbāl'', (Otto Harrassowitz, 1975), 143. As the first author in the Urdu language, he composed his verses in the Persian ''diwan'' style, and his poems consisted of verses relating to a single topic, ''gazal-i musalsal''. Muhammad Quli's ''Kulliyat'' comprised 1800 pages, over half were ''gazals'', ''qasidas'' on one hundred pages, while the rest contained over 300 pages of ''matnawi'' and ''marsiyas.''
'' Annemarie Schimmel, ''Classical Urdu Literature from the Beginning to Iqbāl'', (Otto Harrassowitz, 1975), 143. As the first author in the Urdu language, he composed his verses in the Persian ''diwan'' style, and his poems consisted of verses relating to a single topic, ''gazal-i musalsal''. Muhammad Quli's ''Kulliyat'' comprised 1800 pages, over half were ''gazals'', ''qasidas'' on one hundred pages, while the rest contained over 300 pages of ''matnawi'' and ''marsiyas.''
City of Hyderabad
Muhammad Quli built the city of Hyderabad on the southern bank of theMusi River Musi may refer to:
* Musi River (Indonesia)
* Musi River (India), Telangana
* Moosy River, Andhra Pradesh, India
* Musi language, a Malay language spoken in Indonesia
* Angelo Musi (1918–2009), American basketball player
* Agostino de' Musi, rea ...
in 1591. He called architects from all around the world to lay out the city, which was built on a grid plan. He constructed Char Minar.
Patronage of literature
Quli Qutb Shah was a scholar ofArabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
, Persian and Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
...
languages. He wrote poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meani ...
in Urdu
Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' and is credited with introducing a new sensibility into prevailing genres of Persian/Urdu poetry. Several notable physicians wrote
Books on Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
* Chopra, R.M., The Rise, Growth And Decline of Indo-Persian Literature, Iran Culture House, New Delhi, 2012.
'' and is credited with introducing a new sensibility into prevailing genres of Persian/Urdu poetry. Several notable physicians wrote
Persian language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken an ...
books on Unani medicine during the reign of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. These included Mir Momin (''Ikhtiyarat-i Qutub Shahi''), Shamsuddin Ali Husain al-Jurjani (''Tazkirat-i Kahhalin''), Hakim Shamsuddin bin Nuruddin (''Zubdat-ul Hukama''), Abdullah Tabib
Abdullah Tabib, also known as Abdullah Yazdi, was a Unani physician and writer from the Golconda Sultanate of present-day southern India. He is best known for writing the medical book ''Farid'', also known as ''Tibb-i Faridi''.
Biography
Abdull ...
(''Tibb-i Farid''), Taqiuddin Muhammad bin Sadruddin Ali (''Mizan-ul Tabai), Nizamuddin Ahmad Gilani (''Majmu'a-i Hakim-ul mulk''), and Ismai'l bin Ibrahim Tabrezi (''Tazkirat-ul Hukama'').
Notes
References
* Sangaychay Mala by Gajanan Pole * Prime Ministers of Qutubshhs by Sri Bhopal Rao * Luther, Narendra. ''Prince, Poet, Lover, Builder: Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, The Founder of Hyderabad''Books on Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
* Chopra, R.M., The Rise, Growth And Decline of Indo-Persian Literature, Iran Culture House, New Delhi, 2012.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah 1565 births 1612 deaths People from Hyderabad district, India Kings of Golconda Telugu people Qutb Shahi dynasty Urdu-language poets Year of birth uncertain 1611 in India 1580 in India Urdu-language writers from Mughal India