Sultan Abu Bakr Shah (reigned 1389–1390), was a Muslim ruler of the

Tughlaq dynasty The Tughlaq dynasty ( fa, ), also referred to as Tughluq or Tughluk dynasty, was a Muslim dynasty of Indo- Turkic origin which ruled over the Delhi sultanate in medieval India. Its reign started in 1320 in Delhi when Ghazi Malik assumed the ...

. He was the son of Zafar Khan and the grandson of Sultan Feroze Shah Tughluq.

Life

After

Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughlaq II Ghiyath-ud-din Tughluq Shah II, born Tughluq Khan, was the son of Fateh Khan and the grandson of Firoz Shah Tughlaq. He was a Sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate; he ascended to the throne in 1388 C.E. However, a succession ...

(who had succeeded Sultan Feroze Shah Tughluq) was murdered, Abu Bakr became ruler of the

of the Delhi Sultanate. However, his uncle,

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, also desired to be ruler, and struggled against Abu Bakr over the control of the throne.

attacked

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in August 1390 to claim the throne. Abu Bakr was defeated in August 1390, and Muhammad Shah succeeded him as king, reigning from 1390 to 1394. After his defeat, Abu Bakr was imprisoned in the fort of

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and died soon after.

References

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