Majlis Alam (, ), was a minister (Dastur) of
Srihat (Sylhet) from 1472 to 1476, during the reign of
Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah, the
Sultan of Bengal
The Bengal Sultanate (Middle Bengali: , Classical Persian: ) was a Post-classical history, late medieval sultanate based in the Bengal region in the eastern South Asia between the 14th and 16th century. It was the dominant power of the Ganges- ...
of the
Ilyas Shahi dynasty
The Ilyas Shahi dynasty (, ) was the first independent dynasty to set the foundations of the late medieval Sunni Muslim Sultanate of Bengal. Their rule extended from 1342 to 1487, though interrupted with interregna by their slaves as well as th ...
.
Background
Alam was the son of Musa ibn Haji Amir Khan. According to the
Rajmala
''Rajmala'' is a chronicle of the Kings of Tripura, written in Bengali verse in the 15th century under Dharma Manikya I.
Overview
The ''Rajmala'' chronicles the history of the Manikya kings of Tripura. While it serves as an invaluable s ...
, his grandfather, Haji Amir Khan, was an army commander for Sultan
Rukunuddin Barbak Shah and governed parts of Tripura.
Majlis Alam was a common rank and title given by
the Sultanate to a number of people and so the minister's real name is unknown.
Life
Alam was known to have established many mosques throughout Sylhet.
In 1472, he erected a replica of
Pandua's
Adina Mosque
The Adina Mosque is a former mosque in Malda District, West Bengal, India. It was the largest structure of its kind in the Indian subcontinent and was built during the Bengal Sultanate as a royal mosque by Sikandar Shah, who is also buried in ...
in
Chowkidekhi (Chowkidighi Mahalla). This mosque would be destroyed by a later ruler of Sylhet,
Isfandiyar Khan Beg, in the 1660s.
The inscriptions here refers to himself as ''the Great Majlis, the Minister, the Messenger towards goodness'' ().
In 1476, Alam and his father also constructed the
Goyghor Mosque
The Goyghor Masjid, (; ), also known as the Goyghor Historical Khwaja's Mosque, is an ancient Sunni mosque located in the village of Goyghor in Mostafapur Union, Moulvibazar District, Bangladesh. It was built and established on top of a small h ...
in present-day
Moulvibazar
Moulvibazar (), is a town in north-eastern Bangladesh just south of Sylhet. It is the capital of Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila and Moulvibazar District, and is located on the banks of the Manu River, Tripura, Manu River.
History
In 1771, Moulvi S ...
.
He may have also constructed a small mosque in Choti Dargah in
Hazrat Pandua
Pandua, also historically known as Hazrat Pandua and later Firuzabad, is a ruined city in the Malda district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It served as the capital city of the independent Sultanate of Bengal for nearly a century, until t ...
in 1479 as the builder of that mosque goes by "Majlis al-Majālis Majlis Aʿlā".
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See also
*Haydar Ghazi
Nūr al-Hudā Abū'l-Karāmāt as-Saʿīdī al-Ḥusaynī (), better known as Ḥaydar Ghāzī (, ), was the second vizier, wazir of Sylhet region, Srihat (Sylhet) under the various Sultans of Sonargaon and Gauda (city), Lakhnauti. Prior to this, ...
*History of Sylhet
The Greater Sylhet district region predominantly included the Sylhet Division in Bangladesh, and Karimganj district in Assam, India. The history of the Sylhet region begins with the existence of expanded commercial centres in the area that is ...
* Lutfullah Shirazi
References
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Rulers of Sylhet
15th-century politicians
15th-century Indian Muslims
15th-century Indian people
Bengal Sultanate officers