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{{Infobox royalty<br />
| name = Muhammad Shah III<br />
| title = <br />
| image = 5-6 Billon Tanka of Muhammad bin Firoz.jpg<br />
| caption = 5/6 Billon Tanka of Muhammad bin Firoz, dated AH 794.<br />
| succession = 22nd [[Sultan of Delhi]]<br />
| reign = 31 August 1390 – {{Nowrap|20 January 1394}}<br />
| coronation = <br />
| full name = <br />
| predecessor = [[Abu Bakr Shah]]<br />
| successor = [[Ala ud-din Sikandar Shah]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| issue = {{unbulleted list<br />
|[[Ala ud-din Sikandar Shah]]<br />
|[[Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq]]<br />
}}<br />
| royal house = <br />
| dynasty = [[Tughlaq dynasty|Tughlaq]]<br />
| father = [[Firuz Shah Tughluq]]<br />
| mother = <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1352|06|17|df=yes}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Jackson (historian) |url=https://archive.org/details/TheDelhiSultanateAPoliticalAndMilitaryHistoryCambridgeStudiesInIslamicCivilization/page/n353/mode/1up |title=the Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History |date=April 1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press | page=332}}</ref><br />
| birth_place = <br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1394|01|20|1352|06|17|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Delhi]]<br />
| date of burial = <br />
| place of burial = <br />
| religion = [[Islam]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Nasir-ud-din Muhammad Shah III''' ({{langx|fa|{{nq|محمد شاه}}}}; 17 June 1352 – 20 January 1394) was [[Sultan of Delhi]] from 1390 until 1394.<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |pages=100}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Tughlaq dynasty]].<br />
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== Life and reign ==<br />
Born in 1352, the year after his father ascended the throne, prince Muhammad was the youngest son of [[Firuz Shah Tughlaq]]. During his father's late reign he became inimical with his father's vizier. Despite the vizier's concern Firuz gave him royal power and retired. However, soon after assuming royal titles, Muhammad became decadent, leading to widespread dissent and his deposition. Afterwards, his seventy-eight year old father was brought out of his harem in a palanquin and declared sultan again, and this time the old sultan declared his great-grandson, Tughluq Khan, a grandson of Muhammad's oldest brother Firuz Khan, heir apparent and Prince Muhammad fled from Delhi to Samana. However, Firuz died soon after, and Tughluq Khan became [[Tughluq Khan|Ghiyasuddin Tughluq II]], but this led to another civil war and his cousin and a grandson of Firuz, prince [[Abu Bakr Shah|Abu Bakr]] taking the throne.<br />
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However, Muhammad Shah as his uncle was opposed to him, and struggled against Abu Bakr over the control of the throne. In August 1390, he launched an attack on [[Delhi]] and battled [[Abu Bakr Shah|Abu Bakr Khan]] for the throne of Delhi. Eventually Abu Bakr was defeated, and Muhammad Shah succeeded him as king, reigning from 1390 to 1394. After Abu Bakr's defeat, Muhammad Shah imprisoned him in the fort of [[Meerut]] where he died soon after. <br />
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Muhammad Shah had to face constant rebellions. Uddharan and Sumer, two of his Hindu chiefs rebelled in Etawa. In response, the sultan took the field in 1391 and razed the city to the ground. He also built a fortress near Jalesar, naming it Muhammadabad. His oldest son and crown prince Humayun Khan helped him in putting down rebellions. While preparing for a punitive expedition, Muhammad Shah died in 1394.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Jackson (historian) |url=https://archive.org/details/TheDelhiSultanateAPoliticalAndMilitaryHistoryCambridgeStudiesInIslamicCivilization/page/n309/mode/1up |title=the Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History |date=April 1999 |page=309|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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before=[[Sultan Abu Bakr Shah Tughluq]] |<br />
title=[[Delhi Sultanate|Sultan of Delhi]] |<br />
years=1390 – 1394 |<br />
after=[[Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq]]<br />
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