Person · r. 1490 – 1510

Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I

ملک احمد نظام شاہ اول

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Son of a Bahmani minister, he took his own name into the Friday prayer at Junnar, withdrew it when his officers objected, and put it back when they asked — Ferishta’s account of how the Ahmadnagar sultanate began is an account of hesitation.

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The khutba, withdrawn and reassumed

“By the advice of Yoosoof Adil Shah of Beejapoor, he soon discontinued the names of the Bahmuny kings in the public prayers, for which he substituted his own, and assumed the white canopy; but Khwaja Jehan and some of his own officers remonstrating with him, he commanded his name to be discontinued in the public prayers; and to save appearances declared, that he used the canopy to screen him from the sun, and not to affect royalty.” The officers “shortly afterwards insisted on his re-assuming the regalia”, “to which he assented, declaring it was only at their particular request.”

The archive’s essay on him weighs that against the inscriptions and the coins, none of which carry his name; the succession record marks the foundation contested for that reason.

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