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Muzaffar Shah, lord of Gujarat

مظفر شاه صاحب كجرات

c. 1526 CE · c. 932 AH

Gujarat's sultan — 'just, learned, a lover of scholars', a fine calligrapher who copied mushafs with his own hand and sent one to Medina; his soul left him while he was prostrating. The historian notes he was apparently the sultan at whose court Ba Haruq stayed and for whom the Sira was composed 1.

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At a glance

Roles
sultan
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
South Asia
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca · Ahmad Pasha ibn Khidr Beg

Politics, governance and authority

Summary

Sultan Muzaffar Shah Ahmad ibn Mahmud Shah, ruler of Gujarat. He was just, learned, and a lover of scholars, with fine handwriting. He wrote out a number of copies of the Qur'an with his own hand, and sent one of them to the Holy City of Medina. He died while in prostration in prayer 1.

The assembly of Ba-Harq

It appears from Ibn al-Imad that the scholar Ba-Harq came to visit him, and because of him he wrote a biography of the Prophet ﷺ. He remained honoured and esteemed by the sultan until he died 1.

People and things also explored

Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)· Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd (those who loose and bind: the men of power whose choice confirms the imam)· Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)· Islamic management· Experience versus service, and self-development· The nominal group technique· Leadership and the leader's six roles· Situational leadership

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 577
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Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)

Diwan is a Persian loan-word meaning a collection of sheets and writings, in which the army and those given grants were written; for the jurists it is the register in which the names of those in state service who receive a stipend from the public treasury are recorded, and the office that keeps it. Umar ibn al-Khattab was the first to set up the diwan, according to two accounts. The people of the diwan are of several kinds: soldiers, on conditions that are regulatory, such as puberty, freedom, Islam, health and fitness for fighting; holders of office, such as governors, judges, scholars, collectors, imams and muezzins; and the needy. The Companions differed on preference in distribution: Abu Bakr and Ali made it equal, while Umar and Uthman preferred by precedence in Islam, and Umar added kinship to the Prophet; Abu Hanifa and Ahmad followed the latter view.