An accession arranged in advance
When Ibrahim’s life “was despaired of”, Kishwar Khan moved on Miraj and had its commander “invest the Prince with the insignia of royalty” while the king still lived. On the death, Ali “was met on the route by all the members of the court with the regal insignia of his father”, and “on arriving within two miles of the city Ally Adil Shah ascended the throne in the garden of Kishwar Khan.” He ordered a town built on the spot, Shahpur.
The archive records this as an election because that is what his father had ordered — the ministers were to choose — and marks it contested because the choosing was done by a faction before the throne was vacant.
What he built, and how he died
“The jooma musjid, the howz-i-shapoor, the city wall, and the aqueducts which convey water throughout all the streets, were constructed by his orders.” He was buried in Bijapur, in the tomb “called Roza Ally”.
Having no son, he named his nephew Ibrahim, son of his brother Tahmasp, as successor; the archive’s essay on Ibrahim II carries Ferishta’s statement of it. He was assassinated by a eunuch of his household while an ambassador from Akbar was in the city — a passage Briggs footnotes as one “by no means attempted to be palliated by Ferishta”.