Sixth sultan of Kashmir under the Shah Miri dynasty (r. 1389–1413 CE)
Not to be confused with Sikandar Lodhi, the Afghan Sultan of Delhi.
Sikandar Shah
Sultan of Kashmir Sikandar the Idol Breaker Shah
7th Sultan of Kashmir
Reign
1389–1413 CE
Coronation
1389
Predecessor
Qutbu'd-Din Shah
Successor
Ali Shah
Born
1353 Srinagar, Kashmir Sultanate (present-day Jammu and Kashmir)
Died
1413 Srinagar, Kashmir Sultanate (present-day Jammu and Kashmir)
Names
Sikandar Shah Miri
Dynasty
Shah Mir dynasty
Religion
Sunni Islam (Shafi)
Shingara, better known as Sultan Sikandar Shah Miri (Kashmiri:سلطان سِکَندَر شَاہ مِیرِی, Persian: سلطان سکندر شاہ مِیرِی ), also by his sobriquet Sikandar Butshikan (lit. Sikandar the Iconoclast)[1] was the seventh Sultan of Kashmir and a member of Shah Mir dynasty who ruled from 1389 until his death in 1413.[2]
^Obrock, Luther James (2015). Translation and History: The Development of a Kashmiri Textual Tradition from ca. 1000-1500 (Thesis). UC Berkeley.
^Hasan, Mohibbul (2005). Kashmīr Under the Sultāns. Aakar Books. pp. 59–95. ISBN 978-81-87879-49-7.
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