Saifuddin Hamza Shah ( Persian : سیف الدین حمزه شاه , Bengali : সাইফুদ্দীন হামজ়া শাহ ) was the fourth Sultan of the first Ilyas dynasty of Bengal reigning from 1410 to 1412.
3-678: Hamza was born in the 14th-century into a ruling class Bengali Muslim Sunni family known as the Ilyas Shahi dynasty , in the Bengal Sultanate . His father, Sultan Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah , was the grandson of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah – the founder of the ruling dynasty as well as the nation. Hailing from what is now eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan , Hamza's family was of Sistani ancestral origin. The reasoning behind
6-643: A good relationship with the Yongle Emperor of Ming China , and had an heir named Muhammad bin Hamzah . Hamza's reign was interrupted by a nationwide civil war instigated by Raja Ganesha. According to the Egyptian scholars Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and Al-Sakhawi who were alive at the time of receiving the news, Sultan Hamza Shah was murdered by his slave Mamluk Shihab in 1412. The 20th-century Indian historian R. C. Majumdar however, believes that Shihab
9-628: The death of Hamza's father, Sultan Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah , is contested between a natural death or an assassination plotted by Raja Ganesha , the Hindu zamindar of Bhaturia who gained prominence in the Sultanate court. Following the death, Hamza assumed the throne with the grand title of " Sultan-us-Salatin ", meaning Sultan of Sultans , in 1420 CE with the support of the court nobles. He began minting coins in his name from cities such as Satgaon , Muazzamabad and Firuzabad . Hamza also maintained
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