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Qutb Shah, sultan of Golconda

قطب شاه ملك غلكندة

c. 1580 CE · 988 AH

Qutb Shah b. Qasim Shah — sultan of Golconda; he killed his father the sultan at Tarjalandar (per the source), then reigned thirty-six years; died 988 1.

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sultan
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
South Asia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan · Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca · Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti · Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani)

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Overview

Qutb Shah b. Qasim Shah, sultan of Golconda in India; per the source he had killed his father the sultan at Tarjalandar, then reigned thirty-six years; he died in 988 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. 419
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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.