1206 – 1526 Personalities
The Delhi Sultanate
1206 – 1290
Ghiyas ud din Balban
Ghiyas-ud-din Balban was born in a well-to-do Turk family of the Ilbari tribe. The Mongols captured him when he was ...
Razia Sultana
Daughter of Iltutmush, Razia Sultana was the first female Muslim ruler of South Asia. She was a talented, wise, just ...
Shams ud din Iltutmush
Iltutmush belonged to a noble family of the Ilbari Turks. His brothers became jealous of his intelligence and good looks ...
Qutb ud din Aibak
Born to a Central Asia Turk family, Qutb-ud-din Aibak was captured and sold as a slave when he was a ...
Khwaja Mu’in-ud-din Chisti
Khwaja Mu’in-ud-din Chisti was born in 1140 (536 A.H.) in Seistan in Central Asia. He is one of the most ...
Sheikh Baha-ud-din Zakariya Multani
Sheikh Baha-ud-din Zakariya Multani who initiated the Sufi order Shurawardiyah in Sub-continent was born in 1170. His paternal grandfather who ...
Farid-ud-din Gang Shakar
Farid-ud-din Gang Shakar was the spiritual successor of both paragons of spiritualism, Khwaja Muin-ud-din Chisti and Qutub-ud-din Bakhtyar Kaki belonging ...
Shaikh Sadr-ud-din Arif
Shaikh Sadr ud Din Arif was the successor of his father Baha-ud-din Zakirya Multani. He headed the Shurawardia order from ...
Khwaja Qutub-ud-din Bakhtiyar Kaki
Khwaja Qutub-ud-din Bakhtiyar Kaki is a famous Sufi of Chishtiyah order. He was the chief disciple and Caliph of Khwaja ...
1290 – 1316
Jalal ud Din Firuz Khalji
Jalal-ud-din Firuz Khalji was the founder of Khalji dynasty. Ethnically he was an Afghanized Turk. He ascended the throne on ...
Alauddin Khalji
Alauddin Khalji was the son of Shahab-ud-din Khalji, and nephew and son-in-law of Jalal-ud-din Khalji, the founder of the Khalji ...
1320 – 1414
Nizam-ud-din Auliya
Khawaja Nizamuddin Aulia, the founder of Silsila-e-Nizamia, a branch of Chistiya order, was born in 1238. His real name was ...
Amir Khusrau Dehlvi
One of the iconic figures of the Indo-Pak subcontinent, Amir Khusrau Dehlvi was born in Mominabad, which was later named ...
Ziauddin Barani
Ziauddin Barani was born on 1285 in Barn. He was a noble by birth. His father was the deputy of ...
Amir Najmu’d Din Hasan Al-Sijzi
Amir Najm-ud-din Hasan al-Sijzi was born in Badaun in 1254. He was an important poet of the age, whose work ...
Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq
Ghiyas-ud-din Tuqhluq was a strong and wise ruler but little is known about his early career or about his family. ...
Amir Timur
Timur was born in 1336, at a small town called Kesh, 50 miles south of Samarkand. A Chengezi Turk, he ...
Firuz Shah Tughluq
Firuz Shah was the son of Rajab and cousin of Muhammad bin Tughluq. He spent his entire life under the ...
Muhammad bin Tughluq
Born in a well-to-do family of Tughluq nobles, Fakhr-ud-din Muhammad Junna Khan, popularly known as Muhammad bin Tughluq, received the ...
1414 – 1451
Ala-ud-din Alam Shah
Ala-ud-din Alam Shah was the son of Muhammad Shah. He was a man of week and dissolute character and the ...
Mohammad Shah
Muhammad Shah was the nephew and successor of Mubarik Shah. He ruled for a period of ten years from 1434 ...
Mu’iz-ud-din Mubarik Shah
Khizr Khan was succeeded by his son Mu’iz-ud-din Mubarik Shah. He ruled from 1421 to 1434. Unlike his father, he ...
Khizr Khan
Khizr Kahn was the founder of the Sayyid dynasty. After the death of Mahmud Tughluq, the last ruler of the ...
1451 – 1526
Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah
Mîrza Mahmud, popularly known as Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Oraissa. The termination of ...
Ibrahim Lodhi
Ibrahim ascended the throne in November 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. He was a weak Sultan. ...
Sikandar Lodhi
Bahlul Lodi was succeeded by his son Sikandar Lodi on 17th July 1489. He successfully quelled most of the rebellions ...
Buhlul Lodi
Buhlul Lodi was the founder of Lodi Dynasty and ruled the Delhi Sultanates from 1451 to 1489. He was an ...