Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah

Shihāb ad-Dīn Bāyazīd Shāh
as-Sulṭān
5th Sultan of Bengal
Reign1413–1414
PredecessorSaifuddin Hamza Shah
SuccessorAlauddin Firuz Shah I
Bornc. 1389
Satgaon, Bengal Sultanate
Diedc. 1414
Sonargaon, Bengal Sultanate
HouseIlyas Shahi
ReligionSunni Islam

Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah (Persian: شهاب الدین بایزید شاه, Bengali: শিহাবুদ্দীন বায়েজ়ীদ শাহ) was a Sultan of Bengal for a brief period between 1413 and 1414 CE. He succeeded his father Saifuddin Hamza Shah.[1]

Shihab ad-Din Bayazid Shah continued friendly relations with China and once sent a giraffe to the Chinese emperor with a letter written on a golden leaf. He issued coins from AH 816 to AH 817. The numismatic evidence shows that he was succeeded by his son Ala ad-Din Firuz Shah, who issued coins in AH 817. According to Firishta, Raja Ganesha usurped the throne after the death of Shihab-ud-Din Bayazid Shah, while according to the Riaz-us-Salatin, a late chronicle written in 1788, Raja Ganesha killed Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah and usurped the throne.[1]

  1. ^ a b Majumdar, R. C., ed. (1967) [First published 1960]. The Delhi Sultanate. The History and Culture of the Indian People. Vol. VI (2nd ed.). Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. pp. 204–206. OCLC 664485.