Majlis Alam

Majlis Alam (Bengali: মজলিস/মজলিশ আলম, romanized: Mojlis/Mojlish Alom, Arabic: مجلس عالم‎), was a minister (Dastur) of Srihat (Sylhet) from 1472 to 1476, during the reign of Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah, the Sultan of Bengal of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty.[1][2]

Majlis Alam
1472-1476
Minister of Srihat
MonarchShamsuddin Yusuf Shah
Preceded byKhurshid Khan
Succeeded byMuqarrab ud-Daulah Malik ad-Din
Personal details
FatherMusa ibn Haji Amir

Background

Alam was the son of Musa ibn Haji Amir Khan.[3] According to the Rajmala, his grandfather, Haji Amir Khan, was an army commander for Sultan Rukunuddin Barbak Shah and governed parts of Tripura.[4] Majlis Alam was a common rank and title given by the Sultanate to a number of people and so the minister's real name is unknown.[5]

Life

Alam was known to have established many mosques throughout Sylhet.[6] In 1472, he erected a replica of Pandua's Adina Mosque in Chowkidekhi (Chowkidighi Mahalla).[7] This mosque would be destroyed by a later ruler of Sylhet, Isfandiyar Khan Beg, in the 1660s.[8] The inscriptions here refers to himself as the Great Majlis, the Minister, the Messenger towards goodness (Arabic: مجلس العظم المعظم الدستور الساعي في الخيرات والمبرات المجلس الأعلى‎, romanized: Majlis al-ʿAzam al-Muʿazzam al-Dastūr, al-Sāʿi fil-Khayrāt wal-Mubarrāt al-Majlis al-Aʿlā).[9] In 1476, Alam and his father also constructed the Goyghor Mosque in present-day Moulvibazar.[10] He may have also constructed a small mosque in Choti Dargah in Hazrat Pandua in 1479 as the builder of that mosque goes by "Majlis al-Majālis Majlis Aʿlā".[9]

Political offices
Preceded by
Khurshid Khan		 Minister of Srihat
1472-1476		 Succeeded by
Muqarrab ud-Daulah
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See also

References
  1. Hussain, Akmal (16 Dec 2014). গয়ঘর খোজার মসজিদ. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Moulvibazar. Retrieved 23 Feb 2019.
  2. Ahmed, Sharif Uddin (1 Jan 1999). Sylhet: History and Heritage. Sylhet District: Bangladesh Itihas Samiti. pp. 337, 341.
  3. Fazlur Rahman (1991). Sileter Mati, Sileter Manush (in Bengali). Sylhet District: M A Sattar.
  4. "গয়গড় শিলালিপি ঐতিহাসিক উপকরণ বিশ্লেষণ" (in Bengali). The Daily Sangram. 27 Aug 2011.
  5. Roy, Atul Chandra (1986). History of Bengal, Turko-Afghan Period. West Bengal: Kalyani Publishers. p. 245.
  6. Khan, Mahmud H. পাঁচশতাধিক বছরের ঐতিহাসিক ‘খোজার মসজিদ’. Banglanews24.com (in Bengali).
  7. Hossain, T (1963). Mahe-Nao. 15.
  8. Syed Mohammad Ali (1900). "A chronology of Muslim faujdars of Sylhet". The Proceedings Of The All Pakistan History Conference. 1. Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society. pp. 276-277.
  9. Ahmad Hasan Dani (1957). "Analysis of the Inscriptions". Asiatic Society Of Pakistan Vol-ii. pp. 7 and 103.
  10. Syed Murtaza Ali (1965). Hazrat Shah Jalal O Sileter Itihas. p. 297.
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