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Historical Periods & Dynasties
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- Malik Sarwar — Person · r. 1394 – 1399 · Jaunpur — the SharqisA eunuch minister of the Delhi sultan Muhammad Shah (son of Firuz Shah Tughluq), he was made governor of the eastern provinces in 1394 with the title Malik al-Sharq, made Jaunpur his capital, and used Delhi's disorder to proclaim independence, founding the Sharqi line; he died in office in 1399.
- Mubarak Shah Sharqi — Person · r. 1399 – 1401 · Jaunpur — the SharqisThe adopted son of Malik Sarwar, he succeeded him in 1399 and, with his officers' consent, was the first of the line to strike coin and have the khutba read in his own name as king; he died after an eighteen-month reign in 1401.
- Ibrahim Shah Sharqi — Person · r. 1401 – 1440 · Jaunpur — the SharqisThe younger brother of Mubarak Shah, he was elevated to the throne on Mubarak's death in 1401, made Jaunpur a noted seat of learning, took Kanauj and Sambhal from Delhi, and died of illness in 1440 after a reign of more than forty years.
- Mahmud Shah Sharqi — Person · r. 1440 – 1457 · Jaunpur — the SharqisThe eldest son of Ibrahim Shah, he succeeded him in 1440, campaigned repeatedly against Delhi under Bahlul Lodi, and died of a sudden illness in camp in 1457 after a twenty-year reign.
- Muhammad Shah Sharqi — Person · r. 1457 – 1458 · Jaunpur — the SharqisThe eldest son of Mahmud Shah, proclaimed king as Muhammad Shurky in 1457, he had his brother Hussun Khan murdered, drove his mother and remaining brothers into revolt, and was killed by an arrow while fleeing his brother Husain's forces after a reign of five months.
- Husain Shah Sharqi — Person · r. 1458 – 1476 · Jaunpur — the SharqisA brother of Muhammad Shah, he proclaimed himself king at Kanauj before Muhammad Shah's death and took the throne by force in the ensuing civil war; he later campaigned against Delhi and Orissa, was finally defeated by Bahlul and Sikandar Lodi, and lost Jaunpur to Delhi in 1476, ending the dynasty.
- Jaunpur — the Sharqi Sultans — Dynasty · 1394 – 1483 · Jaunpur — the SharqisFrom Malik Sarwar's assumption of virtual rule as Malik al-Sharq, 796/1394, to the Delhi Sultanate's (Lodi) conquest, 888/1483, per Bosworth's table and prose.
- Bibi Raji — Person · named on the page as mother of Muhammad Shah Sharqi · Jaunpur — the SharqisBeeby Rajy, the Dowager-queen, named explicitly as Mahomed Shah's mother; she is not on the ruler list and has no succession record of her own.