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{{For|other people of the same name|Sikandar Shah (disambiguation){{!}}Sikandar Shah}}
{{Infobox monarch
|name = Sikandar Shah II
|title = Sultan of Gujarat
|image =
|caption =
|reign1 ={{reign|5 April 1526|30 May 1526}}
|reign2 =
|coronation =
|full name =
|predecessor1 = [[Muzaffar Shah II]]
|successor1 =[[Mahmud Shah II of Gujarat|Mahmud Shah II]]
|spouse =
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|royal house =
|dynasty =[[Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat]]
|father = Muzaffar Shah II
|mother =Bibi Rani
|birth_name=Sikandar Khan
|birth_date =
|birth_place =
|death_date =30 May 1526
|death_place =[[Champaner]]
|date of burial =
|place of burial = [[Tomb of Sikandar Shah]], [[Halol]]
|religion = [[Islam]]
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{{Gujarat Sultanate}}
'''Sikandar Shah''', born '''Sikandar Khan''', was a ruler of the [[Muzaffarids (Gujarat)|Muzaffarid dynasty]], who reigned over the [[Gujarat Sultanate]] for few weeks before his murder in 1526.

==Reign==
[[File:Tomb of Sikander Shah.jpg|thumb|[[Tomb of Sikandar Shah]] at [[Halol]]|left]]
Gujarat Sultan [[Muzaffar Shah II]] died at [[Ahmedabad]] on 5 April 1526 after formally appointing his son Sikandar Khán his heir, who soon assumed the reign with title of Sikandar Shah. Bibi Rani was his mother. Three days later, he left for Muhammadabad-[[Champaner]]. When Bibi Rani died, she had requested Imád-ul-Mulk Khush Kadam, a slave, to befriend Sikandar. He therefore resented the continuation of Khudawand as the Chief Minister (''Vazir'') in of appointing him. Some people had told him that the Sultan would get him killed.<ref name="Commissariat1938">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bk585|title=A History of Gujarat including a Survey of its Chief Architectural Monuments and Inscriptions|author=Commissariat|first=M. S.|publisher=Longman, Greens & Co.|year=1938|volume=I|pages=310–312, 318–319|chapter=XXV. Sultans Sikandar and Mahmud II, 1526}}</ref><ref name="GBP"/><ref name=m5>Majumdar, R.C. (2006). ''The Delhi Sultanate'', Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, pp. 167-169</ref>

The Bukhari Sayyid of [[Vatva]], the descendants of the Saint Burhanuddin Qutb-i-Alam, were influential in the Sultanate. Sayyid Shah Sheikhji who was then the head of the family. He had predicted that Bahadur Khan, another son of Muzaffar Shah, would be the successor. So unhappy Sikandar had not given customary visit to him when he went to Champaner.<ref name="Commissariat1938"/>

The only event of Sikandar’s reign was the destruction of an army sent against his brother Latíf Khán who was helped by Rána Bhim of Munga (now [[Chhota Udaipur]]).<ref name="GBP">{{cite book|editor=[[James Macnabb Campbell]]|title=History of Gujarát|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm|series=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency|volume=Volume I. Part II.|year=1896|publisher=The Government Central Press|pages=253–254|chapter=II. ÁHMEDÁBÁD KINGS. (A. D. 1403–1573.)}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>

After Sikandar Sháh had been in power a six weeks, he was murdered on the instruction of Imád-ul-Mulk Khush Kadam, on 30 May 1526 at Champaner. He was asleep in the palace after the return from playing ''chaugan'' (polo). The ''Farishta'' and ''Mirat-i-Sikandari'' mentions that he had dream of his father and Bukhari saints to descend the throne few days before his death.<ref name="Commissariat1938"/>

Imad-ul-Mulk then seated Sikandar Shah's six years old younger brother, Násir Khán, on the throne with the title of [[Mahmud Shah II of Gujarat|Mahmud Shah II]] and governed on his behalf. The nobles deserted Imád-ul-Mulk’s cause, and prince Báhádur Khán, returning to Gujarát from north India, was joined by many supporters prominent among whom was Táj Khán, proprietor of [[Dhandhuka]]. Bahádur marched at once on [[Champaner]], captured and executed Imád-ul-Mulk and poisoning Násir Khán ascended the throne in 1527 with the title of [[Bahadur Shah of Gujarat|Bahadur Shah]].<ref name="GBP"/><ref name=GBPKP>{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Kaira and Panch Maháls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA307|year=1879|publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press|pages=307, 316}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>

Bahadur Shah built a mausoleum, the [[tomb of Sikandar Shah]], in [[Halol]] near Champaner in his honour where he was buried along with his brothers, Nasir Khan and Latif Khan.<ref name=GBPKP/>

==References==
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[[Category:Gujarat sultans]]
[[Category:1526 deaths]]
[[Category:16th-century Indian monarchs]]

Sikandar Shah of Gujarat - Revision history

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