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'Adil Shah Sultan of Bijapur (–1510) Other names: Yusuf Adil Khan Titles Sultan of Bijapur, 1489–1510† Biographical Yusuf Adil Shah was the founder of the 'Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur. He was a nobleman in the service of Muhammad Shah II Bahmani, king of the Deccan. Another source recounts that he was a son of the Ottoman sultan Murad II. When on his accession Muhammad II gave orders for the strangling of all his brothers, Yusuf was saved by a stratagem of his mother. He went to India, where he took service under the Bahmani king of the Deccan, and ultimately became a person of great importance at the court of Mahmud II. After the Sultan died, and dissensions began to prevail in the kingdom of the Deccan, most of the foreign officers and soldiers attached themselves to Yusuf 'Adil Khan, who, seeing the ministers of Mahmud II, the successor of the late king, bent on his destruction, withdrew himself from Ahmadabad, with his family and followers, to his government of Bijapur, and, resolving to become the founder of a kingdom, he began to add to his territories by conquest, including Goa on the west coast. In 1489 he, with the assent of Malik Ahmad Bahrl, assumed the title of Shah, and read the khutba of Bijapur in his own name. The city of Bijapur enjoyed great prosperity for the twenty-one years of his reign. He constructed the citadel of Bijapur which was a mile in circuit, of great strength, well built of the most massive materials, and encompassed by a ditch 100 yards wide. Yusuf 'Adil Khan died at the age of 75 of a dropsical disorder, and was succeeded by his son Isma'il 'Adil Shah. Place of death: Bijapur |
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