Coinage of Malik Saif al-Din Aibak. Lakhnauti mudafat mint. Struck in the names Delhi sultan Shams al-Din Iltutmush and Abbasid caliph al-Mustansir, dated AH 628 (AD 1230-1).
Governor of Bihar
In office -1232
Monarch
Iltutmish
Succeeded by
Tughral Tughan Khan
Governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti)
In office 1232-1236
Preceded by
Alauddin Jani
Succeeded by
Awor Khan Aibak (usurper), Tughral Tughan Khan
Personal details
Relatives
Qamaruddin Kiran Timur Khan (son-in-law)
Malik Saif ad-Dīn Aibak Yughantat (Bengali: মালিক সাইফুদ্দীন আইবক, Persian: سیف الدین آیبک) was a governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi from 1232 to 1236. He was the first of the slave-officers to govern Bengal.[1]
^Kumar, Sunil (1994). When Slaves were Nobles: The Shamsi Bandagan in the Early Delhi Sultanate. University of Delhi.
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