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H. Bloclimann —Geography and History of Bengal. [No. 3, 
I. Fakhruddi'n Abul MusafFar Muba'rak Sha'h. 
He had been Sildhddr, or armour-bearer, to Bahrain Khan, the Dihli 
governor of Sunn drgaon, and on his master’s death in 739 A. H., or 1338 
A.D., proclaimed there his independence. 
According to the Tabaqat i Akbari, Firishtah, and the Riyaz ussalatin, 
Mubarak Shah was killed by ’All Mubarak in 741, after a reign of two 
years and some months. # But as his coins extend over a period of more than 
ten years, from 739 to 750, it looks as if the date given in the histories 
should be corrected to 8bo ^ Ju» ‘ ten years and some months.’ Mr. 
Thomas is willing to antedate Mubarak Shah’s accession to 737 ; but the 
coins r 1 ronicles, p. 2G3, and Plate vi, fig. 7) do not satisfactorily prove 
this, because the reading in the absence of diacritical marks, is more 
likely which the histories give, especially because the numerous coins 
hitherto found do not give the intervening year (738). 
The name ‘ Mubarak Shah’ has been proved by coins, the histories only 
call him Sultan Fakhruddin or more familiarly still, Fakhra.f Ibn Batutah 
also mentions him under the name of Fakhruddin, and says that he was an 
eminent man, kind to strangers and ^Jufis.^ 
Mubarak Shah’s son is mentioned below. His son-in-law Zafar Khan 
fled from Sunnargaon over Tattali to Firuz Shall in Dihli, who, at his 
request, invaded Bengal a second time in the beginning of Sikandar Shah’s 
reign. § 
II. ’Ala'uddi'n Abul MusafFar ’A1P Sha'h. 
Regarding this king the Riyazussalatin has the following : 
‘ It is said that Malik ’All Mubarak, who as king is styled Sultan 
’Alauddin, was a trusted servant of Malik Firuz [subsequently Firuz Shah 
III. of Dihli], and Malik Firuz was brother’s son to Sultan Ghiyasuddin 
Tughluq Shah, and son of the paternal uncle of Muhammad Shah. Muham¬ 
mad Shah, in the first year of his reign, made Malik Firuz his Naib-Barbak. 
Now at this time, Haji Ilyas, the foster-brother of ’Ali Mubarak, did 
something wicked and fled from Dihli. Malik Firuz asked ’All Mubarak 
what had become of Haji Ilyas. ’Ali Mubarak went in search of him ; and 
when he found no trace of him, he told Malik Firuz that Plaji Ilyas had 
run away. Firuz scolded him and told him to leave his presence. ’Ali 
* Tlie Riyaz has five months. Stewart places his death in 743 ; but all histories 
have 741. 
f Dowson, Elliot’s History, III, p. 304. 
J See Ibn Batutah, p. 195. 
§ These facts are only mentioned by Shams i Siraj, who moreover places 
Fakhruddin’s defeat and death immediately after Firuz Shah’s first invasion of Bengal 
in 754. This is clearly a few years too la/te. 
