Ali Adil Shah I

Ali Adil Shah I
Sultan
5th Sultan of Bijapur
Reign1558 – 1580
PredecessorIbrahim Adil Shah I
SuccessorIbrahim Adil Shah II
Died1580[1]
Bijapur
Burial
Ali Ka Rouza
SpouseChand Bibi
IssueIbrahim Adil Shah II the adopted son.
Names
Abul Muzaffar Ali Adil Shah
HouseHouse of Ali
DynastyAdil Shahi Empire
FatherIbrahim Adil Shah I
MotherDaughter of Asad Khan Lari (Khusrow)
ReligionShia Islam

Ali Adil Shah I (Persian: علی عادل شاه; 1558–1580) was the fifth Sultan of the Bijapur Sultanate.

On the day of his coronation Ali abandoned the Sunni practices and reintroduced the Shia Khutbah and other practices. The Persian doctors of religion were granted full freedom to preach the Shi’ah doctrine and were paid by the State for their missionary activities.

The new Sultan restored back to power the Afāqis while relegating the Deccanis to a position of insignificance. He subverted all the dogmatic experiments which his father had practiced.

Chand Bibi hawking, an 18th-century painting
  1. ^ Hutton, Deborah S. (2010). "ʿĀdil Shāhīs". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.