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Historical Periods & Dynasties
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- Khizr Khan — Person · r. 1414 – 1421 · Sayyid DynastyFounded the Sayyid dynasty of Delhi by taking the capital from Dowlut Khan Lody after a four-month siege in 1414, ruling in the name of Timur's line without assuming the royal title, and died of illness in 1421.
- Mubarak Shah — Person · r. 1421 – 1435 · Sayyid DynastySucceeded his father Khizr Khan in 1421 on a nomination the dying king had made, confirmed by an assembly of nobles, and was murdered in a mosque in 1435 by conspirators acting for his own vizier, Sarwar-ul-Mulk.
- Muhammad Shah — Person · r. 1435 – 1445 · Sayyid DynastyPlaced on the throne the same day Mubarak Shah was assassinated, installed by the vizier who had engineered the killing, and died a natural death in 1445.
- Alam Shah — Person · r. 1445 – 1450 (Delhi); d. 1478 · Sayyid DynastySucceeded his father Muhammad Shah in 1445, lost Delhi to Bahlul Lodi in 1450 and formally abdicated in his favour, retiring to Budaun until his death in 1478.
- Delhi Sultanate — the Sayyids — Dynasty · 1414 – 1451 · Sayyid DynastyFrom Khidr Khan's accession, 817/1414, to Alam Shah's withdrawal to Badaon, where the table shows him ruling 855–83/1451–78 as a rump — the archive convention (extinguished by the settlement that ends it) reads 855/1451 as the Delhi succession's actual end, when Bahlul Lodi takes the throne.
- Malik Sulaiman — Person · named on the page as father of Khizr Khan · Sayyid DynastyMullik Sooliman is named only as Khizr Khan's father, an adopted son of Mullik Murdan Dowlut, governor of Mooltan under Feroze Toghluk; he was never a Sayyid ruler of Delhi and is not in the people list.