Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah Explained

Shihāb ad-Dīn Bāyazīd Shāh
as-Sulṭān
Succession:5th Sultan of Bengal
Reign:1413–1414
Predecessor:Saifuddin Hamza Shah
Successor:Alauddin Firuz Shah I
House:Ilyas Shahi
Birth Date:c. 1389
Birth Place:Satgaon, Bengal Sultanate
Death Date:c. 1414
Death Place:Sonargaon, Bengal Sultanate
Religion:Sunni Islam

Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah (Persian: شهاب الدین بایزید شاه, Bengali: শিহাবুদ্দীন বায়েজ়ীদ শাহ) was a Sultan of Bengal for a brief period between 1413 and 1414 CE. He succeeded his father Saifuddin Hamza Shah.[1]

Shihab ad-Din Bayazid Shah continued friendly relations with China and once sent a giraffe to the Chinese emperor with a letter written on a golden leaf. He issued coins from AH 816 to AH 817. The numismatic evidence shows that he was succeeded by his son Ala ad-Din Firuz Shah, who issued coins in AH 817. According to Firishta, Raja Ganesha usurped the throne after the death of Shihab-ud-Din Bayazid Shah, while according to the Riaz-us-Salatin, a late chronicle written in 1788, Raja Ganesha killed Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah and usurped the throne.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Majumdar . R. C. . R. C. Majumdar . The Delhi Sultanate . 1967 . First published 1960 . The History and Culture of the Indian People . VI . 2nd . Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan . Bombay . 664485 . 204–206.