ʻIzz ad-Dīn Yaḥyā (; ; died 1338) was the Governor of the provincial
Satgaon
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who reigned from 1328 to 1338.
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History
Izzuddin was appointed the governor under the Tughlaq
The Tughlaq dynasty (also known as the Tughluq or Tughluk dynasty; ) was the third dynasty to rule over the Delhi Sultanate in medieval India. Its reign started in 1320 in Delhi when Ghazi Malik assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath ...
Delhi Sultanate
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Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the founder of the Sultanate of Bengal and its inaugural Ilyas Shahi dynasty. The Ilyas Shahi Dynasty ruled Bengal for 145 years (1342–1487), except for a 21-year interregnum by the House of Ganesha, descendants of R ...
took service under Izzuddin. Izzuddin further encouraged the spread of Islam
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among the Hindus
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and Buddhists
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of Bengal
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. After his death in 1338, Ilyas Shah took control of Satgaon and declared independence from Delhi.
See also
* List of rulers of Bengal
This is a list of rulers of Bengal. For much of History of Bengal, its history, Bengal was split up into several independent kingdoms, completely unifying only several times. In Kingdoms of Ancient India, ancient times, Bengal consisted of the ...
* History of Bengal
The history of Bengal is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It includes modern-day Bangladesh and the States and union territories of India, Indian stat ...
* History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Sedentism, Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; ...
References
Governors of Bengal
Year of birth missing
1338 deaths
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