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| name               = Islam Khan Chisti

| birth_name         = Shaikh Alauddin Chisti

| image             = Tomb of Islam Khan 009.JPG

| birth_date         = c. 1570

| caption           = The tomb of Islam Khan, in the courtyard of the [[Jama Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri]]

| death_date         = c. 1613

| resting_place     = [[Jama Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri|Jama Masjid]] courtyard, [[Fatehpur Sikri]]

| occupation         = Mughal General

| parents           = Shaikh Badruddin Chisti

Islam Khan was a playmate of Jahangir in childhood.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Karim |first=Abdul |year=2012 |chapter=Islam Khan Chisti |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Islam_Khan_Chisti |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> Khan and Jahangir were foster cousins; Khan's paternal aunt, whose father was [[Salim Chisti]], had been the foster mother of Jahangir. [[Qutubuddin Koka]] was Khan's first cousin also. He was first appointed as the [[Subahdar]] of [[Bihar Subah|Bihar]].<ref name=bpedia/>

He fought with [[Musa Khan (Bengal Ruler)|Musa Khan]],<ref name="sen2">{{cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |date=2013 |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |page=165 |isbn=978-93-80607-34-4}}</ref> the leader of Bara-Bhuiyans and by the end of 1611 he was subdued.<ref name=bpedia/> Islam Khan also defeated [[Pratapaditya]] of [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]], Ram Chandra of [[Bakla, Bangladesh|Bakla]] and Ananta Manikya of [[Bhulua Kingdom|Bhulua]].<ref name=bpedia/> Then he annexed the kingdoms of [[Cooch Behar State|Koch Bihar]], [[Koch Hajo]] and [[Barak Valley|Kachhar]]. Thus he took total control over Bengal. He moved the capital of Bengal to Dhaka from Rajmahal. He renamed Dhaka to Jahangirnagar.