Sikandar Shah Miri

Sikandar Shah
Sultan of Kashmir
Sikandar the Idol Breaker
Shah
7th Sultan of Kashmir
Reign1389–1413 CE
Coronation1389
PredecessorQutbu'd-Din Shah
SuccessorAli Shah
Born1353
Srinagar, Kashmir Sultanate
(present-day Jammu and Kashmir)
Died1413
Srinagar, Kashmir Sultanate
(present-day Jammu and Kashmir)
Names
Sikandar Shah Miri
DynastyShah Mir dynasty
ReligionSunni Islam
(Shafi)

Shingara, better known as Sultan Sikandar Shah Miri (Kashmiri: سلطان سِکَندَر شَاہ میٖرِی, 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]

  1. ^ Obrock, Luther James (2015). Translation and History: The Development of a Kashmiri Textual Tradition from ca. 1000-1500 (Thesis). UC Berkeley.
  2. ^ Hasan, Mohibbul (2005). Kashmīr Under the Sultāns. Aakar Books. pp. 59–95. ISBN 978-81-87879-49-7.