Sidi Maula

Sidi Maula
(?-1292?)
   An immigrant dervish from Central Asia whose hospice at Delhi started attracting numerous visitors after Jalal al-Din Firuz Khalji's accession (1290). Khan-i Khanan Mah-mud, the eldest son of the sultan, became an ardent follower of Sidi Maula. On Khan-i Khanan's death in 1292, many grandees from Bal-ban's era, including the Hindu chiefs Hatya Paik and Brinjin the kot-wal, engaged in a conspiracy to bring Sidi Maula to the throne. The conspiracy was betrayed by a newly recruited Mongol noble. Sidi Maula was interrogated in open court, where he was injured by a group of Haidari mendicants and trampled under the feet of an ele-phant on the order of the sultan's son Arkali Khan. Hatya Paik and Brinjin Kotwal were also executed. Others involved were exiled and their properties confiscated.

Historical dictionary of Medieval India. . 2011.

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