23 Facts About Mubarak Khan

Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah was a ruler of the Delhi Sultanate of present-day India.

Mubarak Khan was murdered because of a conspiracy by his slave general Khusrau Khan, who succeeded him on the throne.

Mubarak Shah, called Mubarak Khan, was a son of Alauddin Khalji and Jhatyapali, the daughter of Ramachandra of Devagiri.

Mubarak Khan Shah, who was a major threat as one of the few adult sons of Alauddin, was imprisoned.

However, Mubarak Khan Shah believed that as a regent, his life would be in constant danger.

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Mubarak Khan Shah retained Alauddin's officers and governors, which ensured a stable government during the first year of his reign.

Mubarak Khan Shah attributed his rise to power to the divine will.

Mubarak Khan once asked his courtiers if any of them had expected him to become the king.

Mubarak Khan assumed the title Khalifatullah, which appears on his coins.

Mubarak Khan collected a large sum of money from the chiefs and landholders of Gujarat, and sent it to Delhi.

Mubarak Khan Shah wanted to recapture Devagiri immediately after his ascension, but his counsellors had advised him against attempting to do so without consolidating his rule in Delhi first.

Mubarak Khan Shah spent some time consolidating his rule in Deccan.

Mubarak Khan surrendered a huge amount of wealth to the invaders, and agreed to make regular tribute payments.

Mubarak Khan's harem had a large number of women, many of which accompanied him on his campaigns.

Mubarak Khan Shah preferred Hasan as a partner, but turned to Husamuddin whenever Hasan was not available.

Khusrau Mubarak Khan then told the Sultan that he wanted his men to be granted access to the palace, so that they could meet him without requiring him to leave the Sultan's company.

Randhol, the maternal uncle of Khusrau Mubarak Khan, entered the palace with a large number of Baradus, who hid daggers under their clothes.

However, Khusrau Mubarak Khan told him that the royal horses had broken loose, and the noise was caused by the guards trying to catch the animals.

Mubarak Khan then beheaded the Sultan, and the head was later thrown in the courtyard on the ground floor.

Legend says that Mubarak Shah did not like the famous Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, because Khizr Khan - the brother whom Mubarak Shah put to death - was a disciple of the saint.

Mubarak Khan Shah started patronizing the rival saint Shaikhzada Jam, but Shaikhzada Jam did not become as reputed as Nizamuddin Auliya.

When Mubarak Khan Shah constructed a jama masjid called Masjid-i-Miri and asked all Muslim scholars and mystics to assemble there for the Friday prayers, Nizamuddin refused to oblige, declaring that he would visit the mosque closest to his home instead.

Mubarak Khan then declared that if Nizamuddin did not visit him personally at the beginning of the next lunar month, he would compel the saint to do so via an executive order.