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|name = Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah<br />
|title = [[Sultan]] of [[Bengal]]<br />
|image =<br />
|caption =<br />
|succession =<br />
|reign =1433 - 1436<br />
|coronation =<br />
|full title =<br />
|predecessor = [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah]]<br />
|successor = [[Mahmud Shah of Bengal|Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah]]<br />
|regent =<br />
|spouses=<br />
|issue =<br />
|full name = Masnad Shahi al-Muzaffar Shams ad-Din Ahmad<br />
|house = [[Ganesha dynasty]]<br />
|father = [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah]]<br />
|mother =<br />
|birth_name = Ahmad ibn Muhammad<br />
|birth_date = {{birth year|1419}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Bengal Sultanate]]<br />
|death_date = {{death year and age|1436|1419}}<br />
|death_place = [[Bengal Sultanate]]<br />
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|religion = [[Sunni Islam]]<br />
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[[File:Dinajpur Rajbari (13).jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Dinajpur Rajbari in [[Dinajpur District, Bangladesh|Dinajpur]] was Ahmad Shah's palace.]]<br />
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'''Shamsuddīn Aḥmad Shāh''' ({{lang-fa|شمس الدین احمد شاه}}; {{lang-bn|শামসুদ্দীন আহমদ শাহ}} ; r. 1433–1436) was a [[Sultan of Bengal]] and member of the [[Ganesha dynasty]]. He was the son and successor of Sultan [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah]]. After his father's death, he ascended the throne at the age of 14.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite Banglapedia|author=Taher, MA|article=Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah }}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Ahmad was born into the ruling family of the [[Bengal Sultanate]], during the reign of his father [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah]] in 1419. They belonged to the [[Ganesha dynasty]], and Ahmad's grandfather was [[Raja Ganesha]], a [[Bengali Hindu]]. Ahmad's father had [[Conversion to Islam|become a Muslim]] in 1415 and so Ahmad was born a [[Bengali Muslim]].<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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==Reign==<br />
Ahmad's father died in [[Rabiʽ al-Thani]] 837 AH (November/December 1433 CE) and so Ahmad ascended the throne at 14 years of age.<ref name=dad>{{cite Banglapedia|author=Taher, MA|article=Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah}}</ref><br />
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The Muazzampur Shahi Mosque, adjoining the [[dargah]] of Shah Alam Shah Langar, in [[Sonargaon Upazila|Muazzampur, Sonargaon]] was built during the reign of Ahmad Shah.<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Muazzampur Shahi Mosque|author=Muazzam Hussain Khan}}</ref> The Persian inscription mentions officers by the name of Firuz Khan and Ali Musa Sultan.<ref name=dani>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126929|title=Asiatic Society Of Pakistan Vol-ii|year=1957|author=Ahmad Hasan Dani|author-link=Ahmad Hasan Dani|chapter=Analysis of the Inscriptions|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126929/page/n47 38]–41}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Epigraphy and Islamic Culture: Inscriptions of the Early Muslim Rulers of Bengal (1205-1494)|last=Siddiq|first=Mohammad Yusuf|date=19 Nov 2015|publisher=Routledge|page=139|chapter=Inscriptions of the Sultanate period}}</ref><br />
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According to [[Firishta]], he followed the liberal policy of his father and was known for justice and charity.<ref name=m4/> His father had good ties with [[Barsbay]],<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah|author=MA Taher}}</ref> a [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk sultan]] who had gifted Jalaluddin with investiture, a robe of honour and a letter of recognition.<ref>{{cite book|author=Al-Sakhawi|author-link=Al-Sakhawi|language=ar|title=Al-Daw al-lami` li ahli al-Qarni al-Tasi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Zafar ul wālih bi Muzaffar wa ālihi|language=ar|author= ʻAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-ʻUmar al-Makkī al-Āṣafī al-Ulughkhānī Hajjī ad-Dabir}}</ref> Jalaluddin had died before his own gifts could be dispatched to Barsbay, and so the job was left for Ahmad Shah to complete. Ahmad Shah had slightly delayed the dispatching but nevertheless sent the initial gifts of his father off whilst also adding more gifts of his own.<ref>{{cite book|title=Corpus of the Muslim Coins of Bengal: (down to A. D. 1538)|author=Abdul Karim|author-link=Abdul Karim (historian)|publisher=Asiatic Society of Pakistan|year=1960}}</ref> In total, the package was worth over 12,000 [[History of the taka|red tanka]]s and included clothes, cotton, [[ginger]], [[Terminalia chebula|myrobalan]] and other spices. The envoy, travelling from Bengal to Cairo via the [[Indian Ocean]], sank whilst at [[Jeddah]]'s coast. In 1436, the Governor of Jeddah sent some men to search the [[Red Sea]] for the gifts and they came back with the textiles although the spices were damaged by the water. After Barsbay was informed of this by the Governor, he ordered for the arrest of all members of the Bengali embassy, the confiscation of their envoy's merchandise, and banned them from ever travelling to Cairo again.<ref>{{cite book|title=Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World|last=Behrens-Abouseif|first=Doris|date=16 May 2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|pages=9, 29, 46}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Ahmad Shah ruled for only 3 years. His reign was marked with chaos and anarchy including an invasion led by [[Jaunpur Sultanate#Ibrahim Shah|Ibrahim Shah Sharqi]]. Later Ahmad Shah was killed by two of his powerful and influential servants, Sadi Khan and Nasir Khan in 1436 AD.<ref name=bpedia /> He was buried in the [[Eklakhi Mausoleum]] with his mother and father.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.asikolkata.in/maldah.aspx |title=Adina Masjid |website=ASI, Kolkata Circle |access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref> After his assassination, Sadi Khan and Nasir Khan fell out and were eventually overthrown. Bengal became under the [[Ilyas Shahi dynasty]] again after the ascension of [[Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah]] in 1437.<ref name=m4>Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2006). ''The Delhi Sultanate'', Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, p.211</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of rulers of Bengal]]<br />
* [[History of Bengal]]<br />
* [[History of India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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