Brother, then son
Confined at Lohgarh through his brother Murtaza’s reign, he was persuaded by a court faction “to put forth his claim to the throne, on the plea that his brother was mad, and unfit to reign”; defeated, he “sought protection with the Emperor Akbur, with whom he continued till the accession of his son to the throne, of which he dispossessed him as above related.”
“Boorhan Nizam Shah was advanced in years when he ascended the throne … The first act of his reign was to annul the orders respecting the Mehdvy doctrines, which Jumal Khan had so strenuously enforced … The Sheea religion was again restored to its pristine glory.”
Naming a successor
On his deathbed “he sent for his son Ibrahim, whom he nominated his successor, passing over Ismael, who was known to be an enemy to the Sheeas, and a strict Mehdvy.” He died “on the 18th of Shaban, 1003” — Briggs prints May 1594; the Hijri date falls in April 1595 — “after a reign of four months and sixteen days” as Briggs prints it — a length irreconcilable with the deposition of Ismail two years after 1589, and left here as printed rather than corrected.