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Shams ud Din Khan (1900–1969) was a notable early Pashtun Ahmadi in the North West Frontier province of India. (Now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan) He remained...

Ghiyas ud din Balban (Persian: غیاث الدین بلبن; 1216–1287, r. : 1266–1287) was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi. Ghiyas ud Din was the regent...

Shams ud-Din Iltutmish (Persian: شمس الدین ایلتتمش; (1192-died 30 April 1236, r. 1211–1236) was the third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the former Ghurid...

Baalbek Shams-ud-din Iltutmish (died 1236), Muslim Turkic sultan of Delhi Shamsuddin Sabzwari (died 1247), Sufi missionary in southern Punjab Shams al-Din Muhammad...

ud-Din Bahram (Persian: معز الدین بهرام; 9 July 1212 – 15 May 1242, r. 1240–1242) was the sixth sultan of the Mamluk Dynasty. He was the son of Shams...

Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan Siddiqi (11 August 1671–1 June 1748) also known as Chin Qilich Qamaruddin Khan, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah and Nizam I, was the first...

sons, Ghazi ad-Din Haydar, Shams-ud-daula, and Nasser-ud-daula. His son Ghazi ad-Din succeeded him, and later his grandson, Nasser ad-Din Haydar. After...

Qutb ud-Din Aibak, Taj al-Din Yildiz, Bahauddin Tughril, Nasir ad-Din Qabacha and Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji who barely consulted Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud...

Chihalgani (lit. 'the Forty') conspired against Aram Shah and invited Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, then Governor of Badaun, to replace Aram. Iltutmish defeated...

return?" Shams replied, "My head!" The voice then said, "The one you seek is Jalal ud-Din of Konya." On the night of 5 December 1248, as Rumi and Shams were...

was the founder and teacher of the Madrasa Shams-uloom at Fort Sandeman in Zhob.[citation needed] Shams-ud-din received elementary religious education from...

Dewan Salar Jung I and Shams-ul-Umra III. While Salar Jung I served as regent, Shams-ul-Umra III served as co-regent. Mahboob Ali Khan was the first Nizam...

installed Shams-ud-din as a puppet ruler. Firuz and Ahmed marched to Gulbarga and Firuz declared himself the sultan. Taghalchin was killed and Shams-ud-din was...

Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the...

conferred with the titles of Shams-ul-Umra ("The Sun among Nobles"), Shams-ul-Mulk, and Shams-ud-Daula. He became the founder of the Paigah family. Shaikh Muhammad...

Shams ud-Din Ataga Khan (died 16 May 1562) was a prominent figure in the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar. He held important positions in Akbar's court...

power in 1210, but he was assassinated in 1211 by Aibak's son-in-law, Shams ud-Din Iltutmish. Iltutmish's power was precarious, and several Muslim amirs...

nobles appointed his three-year-old son Shams ud-Din Kayumars as Sultan. A Turko-Afghan named Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji then marched on Delhi, killed...

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar ((1542-10-15)15 October 1542 – (1605-10-27)27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar...

Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq (Persian: غیاث الدین تغلق), or Ghazi Malik (غازی ملک; Ghazi means fighter for Islam; died 1 February 1325) was the Sultan of Delhi...