Amran, formerly known as Amran is a village in morbi Taluka of

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, India.

History

It was the residence of the descendants of the Khavas family of

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to whom this estate belonged during British period. Amran is an ancient town and is celebrated as containing the shrine of a Muslim saint or ''pir'' called Daval Shah. This man was the son of one of the nobles of Sultan

Mahmud Begada Abu'l Fath Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah I ( Gujarati: અબુલ ફત નાસીર ઉદ દિન મહમુદ શાહ), more famously known as Mahmud Begada, was a Sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate. Raised to the throne at a young age ...

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, named Malik Mahmud Kuraishi. His own name was Malik Abd-ul-Latif, but he had received the title of Davar-ul-Mulk from the Sultan. He was ''faujdar'' of Ambran and had subdued the neighboring Rajputs. He was assassinated by a Rajput in 1509, and was made a saint after his death by the title of Daval Shah. Daval is doubtless a corruption of Davar in his title of Davar-ul-Mulk. His tomb is a place of pilgrimage to this day.

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