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The Religion of Ahmad Shah Bahmani

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Firita records that Yūsuf ‘Ādil āh of Bījāpūr, the founder of the ‘Ādil āhī dynasty, on learning that āh Ismā‘īl I, Ṣafavī (1502–24), had established the ī‘ah religion in Persia, caused the call to prayer and the ubah to be recited, in the month of Ẕi-’l. Ḥijjah, a.h. 908 (June–July, 1502), in the ī‘ah form, and attempted to establish that faith as the state religion of Bījāpūr. He adds that Yūsuf was the first sovereign in India to make such an attempt. This does not necessarily mean that he was the first ī‘ah monarch in India. All that it means is that he was the first monarch of that religion who attempted to force his people to conform to his own faith.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1924

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References

page 73 note 1 ii, 18.

page 74 note 1 Vol. iv, p. 84, n. 6.

page 74 note 2 ii, 18.

page 74 note 3 ii, 212.

page 75 note 1 The hat of a darvĩ , to which this name is given.

page 76 note 1 Now always pronounced Māhūn.

page 77 note 1 The author of the Burhān-i-Ma’ā ir (King's translation, p. 57) places the saint's death in a.h. 843 (a.d. 1439–40), but this is evidently a mistake, for Aḥhmad āh was himself then no longer living.

page 78 note 1 King's translation, pp. 64, 65.