Sultan of Bengal Shah of Bengalis The right hand and defender of the caliphate Amir al-Mu'minin (the Commander of the Faithful)
Silver coin (Tanka) of Alauddin Husain Shah
18th Sultan of Bengal
Reign
1494–1519
Predecessor
Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah
Successor
Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah
Born
Sayyid Husain
Died
1519
Spouses
Daughter of the Qazi of Chandpur
Issue
Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah Shahzada Danyal Several others
Father
Sayyid Ashraf Al-Husaini
Religion
Islam
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Ala-ud-din Husain Shah (Bengali: আলাউদ্দিন হোসেন শাহ (1494–1519)[1] was an independent late medieval Sultan of Bengal, who founded the Hussain Shahi dynasty.[2] He became the ruler of Bengal after assassinating the Abyssinian Sultan, Shams-ud-Din Muzaffar Shah, whom he had served under as wazir. After his death in 1519, his son Nusrat Shah succeeded him. The reigns of Husain Shah and Nusrat Shah are generally regarded as the "golden age" of the Bengal sultanate.[3]
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Muslim Sultanate of Bengal from 1494 to 1538. The dynasty's founder, AlauddinHusainShah was possibly of Sayyid Arab, or even Afghan origin. He is considered...
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15th century and early 16th century. He served as the General of AlauddinHusainShah. Khan was born into a Muslim family of nobles that served as military...
Madinah.Another theory is that the calendar was first developed by AlauddinHusainShah (reign 1494–1519), a Hussain Shahi sultan of Bengal by combining...
affected the sultanate. Alauddin Hussain Shah gained control of Bengal in 1494 when he was prime minister. AlauddinHusainShah founded the Hussain Shahi...
led to the death of Shamsuddin Mozaffar Shah. Syed Hossain ascended the throne with the name AlauddinHusainShah. He expelled all the Habshi from power...
asylum by sultan AlauddinHusainShah and spent his last days there. In 1486, Bahlul Lodi placed his eldest surviving son Barbak Shah Lodi on the throne...
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah, and ruled by the Ilyas Shahi dynasty, succeeded by the Hussain Shahi dynasty founded by AlauddinHusainShah, which saw the extension...
Bogra. Nilambar was defeated by the Sultan of Bengal, AlauddinHusainShah, in 1498. HusainShah invaded the Kamata kingdom with 24,000 infantry, cavalry...
Sahih al-Bukhari by hand in Ekdala, and gifted it to the Sultan AlauddinHusainShah. The manuscript of this work is currently kept at the Khuda Bakhsh...
shrine was constructed by Khalis Khan during the reign of Sultan AlauddinHusainShah of Bengal according to a 1505 inscription at the site, though earlier...
Khadijah. Other records have also mentioned a granddaughter of AlauddinHusainShah being a queen in the Maldives too. According to the Maldivian foreign...
suppress the invasion of Firuz Shah Tughlaq of Delhi. In 1498, Sultan AlauddinHusainShah dispatched military general Shah Ismail Ghazi with 24,000 soldiers...
last capital at Gosanimari was attacked by the invading army of AlauddinHusainShah of Bengal. The ancient kingdom of Kamatapur was located in the western...
mosque was believed to have been commissioned by the Sultan of Bengal AlauddinHusainShah to celebrate the victory of the Conquest of Kamata in 1498. However...
Barmaqam Powa Makkah, renovated by the 15th-century Sultan of Bengal AlauddinHusainShah. They are divided into three clans: The Makakyum Ariba clan are descended...
of their father Mansur Shah, his half brother, Raja Husain ascended the Melakan throne and took the title Alauddin Riayat Shah. Relations between Melaka...
whether it was adopted by AlauddinHusainShah or Akbar. The tradition to use the Bengali calendar may have been started by HusainShah before Akbar. Regardless...
kingdoms and Kamata was the domain of the Baro-Bhuyans chieftains. AlauddinHusainShah of Gaur removed Nilambar of the Khen dynasty in 1498, occupied Kamata...
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