| Ibrahim Adil Shah | |||||
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| Sultan | |||||
 A portrait of Ibrahim Adil Shah II | |||||
| 6th Sultan of Bijapur | |||||
| Reign | 1580 – 12 September 1627 | ||||
| Predecessor | Ali Adil Shah I | ||||
| Successor | Mohammed Adil Shah | ||||
| Born | c. 1570 | ||||
| Died | 12 September 1627 (aged 56-57) Bijapur | ||||
| Burial | |||||
| Spouse | Chand Sultana (daughter of Ibrahim Qutb Shah) Kamal Khatun Taj Sultan Sundar Mahal | ||||
| Issue | Durvesh Badshah Sultan Sulaiman Muhammad Adil Shah Khizar Shah Zahra Sultana Burhan Sultan Begum Fatima Sultana | ||||
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| Dynasty | Adil Shahi dynasty | ||||
| Father | Tahamasp | ||||
| Mother | Haji Badi Sahiba Begum | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam[1] | ||||
Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1570 – 12 September 1627) was Sultan of the Sultanate of Bijapur and a member of the Adil Shahi dynasty. Under his reign the sultanate had its greatest period[2] as he extended its frontier as far south as Mysore. He was a skilful administrator, artist, poet[3] and a generous patron of the arts. He reverted to the Sunni orthodoxy of Islam,[4] but remained tolerant of other religions, including Christianity. However, during his reign high-ranking Shiite immigrants became unwelcome[5] and in 1590, he ordered the confinement of criers who read the khutba in the Shia form.[6] The Adil Shahis under his rule left a tradition of cosmopolitan culture and artistic patronage whose architectural remains are to be seen in the capital city of Bijapur.
- ^ Farooqui Salma Ahmed, A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, (Dorling Kindersley, 2011), 176.
- ^ Sen, Sailendra (2013). A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. p. 119. ISBN 978-9-38060-734-4.
- ^ Schimmel, Annemarie (2004). Burzine K. Waghmar (ed.). The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture. Corinne Attwood, translator. Reaktion Books. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-86189-185-3.
- ^ Meri, Josef W., ed. (1 November 2005). Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. p. 108. ISBN 9780415966900.
- ^ Stephen P. Blake (11 February 2013). Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 9781139620321.
- ^ Richard Maxwell Eaton (8 March 2015). The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India. Princeton University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9781400868155.