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Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah and his Portuguese allies were defeated by Sher Shah Suri on 6 April 1538, as his appeals to the Mughal Emperor Humayun went unanswered. [1] Ghiyasuddin died of wounds sustained during the siege of Gaur by Sher Shah Suri, and grief after learning two of his sons had been executed by the Afghans. [3] [4]
The last Sultan of the dynasty, Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah, who continued to rule from Sonargaon, had to contend with rising Afghan activity on his northwestern border. Eventually, the Afghans under the Sur Empire broke through and sacked the capital in 1538 where they remained for several decades, successively establishing two independent ...
Ghiyath Shah, also known as Ghiyas-ud-Din Shah or Ghiyasuddin, was a Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate in the fifteenth century. The son of his predecessor Mahmud Shah I , he reigned from 1469 to 1500. A military leader before his accession, he was known during his reign for his religious devotion and cultural life.
According to historians Nizamuddin Ahmad and Firishtah, Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah was an ideal sultan. Another historian Ghulam Husain Salim says that by his good administration the wounds of oppression inflicted by the previous Sultan Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah were healed. [ 6 ]
For example, the tomb of Sultan Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah in Sonargaon has features similar to the architecture of Adina Mosque built by his father Sultan Sikandar Shah. An indigenous Islamic mausolea style developed with the Eklakhi Mausoleum , which is the royal tomb chamber of Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah.
Alauddin Husain Shah, Sultan (1494–1519) Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah, Sultan (1519–1533) Alauddin Firuz Shah II, Sultan (1533) Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah, Sultan (1533–1538) Bengal Sultanate: Muhammad Shah dynasty (complete list) – Muhammad Khan Sur, Sultan (1554–1555) Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah II, Sultan (1555–1561)
Sultan Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah constructed a highway from Chittagong to Chandpur and ordered the construction of many lavish mosques and tombs. After the defeat of the Sultan of Bengal Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah in the hands of Sher Shah Suri in 1538, the Arakanese Kingdom of Mrauk U managed to regain Chittagong.
Ghiyath Shah (1469–1500), second Sultan of the Khilji dynasty of Malwa; Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah (deposed 1538), last sultan of the Hussain Shahi dynasty of Bengal; Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah II (r. 1555–1561), Sultan of Bengal; Ghiyasuddin Jalal Shah (died 1563), Sultan of Bengal; Muhammed Ghiya'as ud-din (fl. 1766–1773), Sultan of the Maldives