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 Yusaf 285 Tusaf List of the Icings of the 'Adil Shdhi dynasty. A. D. Tusaf 'Adil Shah, supposed to be the son of Murad II of Anatolia ; purchased for the bodyguard at Ahmadabad from a merchant. He began to reign 1489 Isma'il 'Adil Shah, son of Yusaf 1510 Mallu 'Adil Shah, son of Isma'il, reigned six months 1534 Ibrahim 'Adil Shah I, son of Isma'fl 1535 'AH 'Adil Shah I, son of Ibrahim 1557 Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II, son of Tahmasp the son of 'AH A. Shah 1579 Muhammad 'Adil Shah, son of Ibrahim II 1626 'AH 'Adil Shah II, son of Muhammad 1660 Sikandar 'Adil Shah the last king of Bijapur .... 1673 Yusaf 'Ali Khan, w''^ ts'^ '-**'^:!, Nawab of Eampur. His Highness was one of the few princes who were faith- ful to the British Government in the troublous times of 1857, when the whole of the N. W. Provinces were in a state of revolt and insurrection. Lord Canning rewarded him with liberal grants of land worth a lac per annum, whilst Her Majesty was pleased to confer on him the Star of India. He died at his capital in Eohilkhand on the 21st of April, 1865 A. D., 24th Zi-Ka'da, 1282 A. H. Yusaf Amiri, Maulana, c^y"! a Persian poet who iiourished in the time of Shahrukh Mirza and wrote panegyrics in praise of his son Baisanghar Mirza. Yusaf bin-Muhammad, ^i)'. ^"ji, author of a medical work called " Faedat-ul-Akhbar." Yusaf bin- Junaid, •^■i^^ generally known by the name of Akhi Chalabi. Vide !Kazi Khan. Yusaf bin-Hasan-al-Mukaddasi, cs-****-*' i^'^ ^"^ji, author of a portion of the " Tabakat-al-Hanbaliat." He died in 1466 A D., 871 A. H. vide Abu'l Husain bin- Abu Yali. Yusaf Hamadani, ^^-'l'^** '^'^^i, a celebrated learned Musalman of Hamadan who died in the year 1141 A. D., 536 A. H. Yusaf Khan, Mirza, e;^^ ^'^y.. A Mansabdar of 2,500 in the 30th year of Akbar, and subsequently go- vernor of Kashmir. Later still served with distinction imder Abu'l Fazl in the Dakhin ; died Jam. II. 1010 A. H. Was a native of Mashad, of the Sayyid tribe. Yusaf, Mir, cf^'^]/*-*! ^'^ji J^, of Astrabad who was living in 1580 A. D., 988 A. H. and wrote a chronogram on the death of the poet Kasim Kahi, who died that year. Yusaf Muhammad Khan, ejl^ -i-*^* Commander of Pive Thousand under Akbar, whose foster- brother he was. Died of drink, 973 A. H. Yusaf Muhammad Khan, '■^y, author of a history of the reign of Muhammad Shah emperor of Dehlf, called "Tarikh Muhammad Shahi." Yusaf Shah Purbi, ij)^, the son of Barbak Shah whom he succeeded to the throne of Bengal in 1174 A. D., 887 A. H. He reigned 8 years and died in 1482 A. D. His son Fatha Shah succeeded him. Yusaf, Maulana, of Naishapur, jy^y^^^'^y. is the first person who wrote a book on the art of writing poetry in Persian ; he iiourished about two hundred years after Khulfl bin- Ahmad of Basra who had also written on the same subject in Arabic. Yusaf, Shaikh, ♦-ar^rl first king of Multin. The introduction of the Muhammadan faith into Multan, says Firishta, first took place in the latter part of the first century of the Hijra, about the year 700 A. D. by the conquest of that country by Muhammad Kasim, after whom, until the reign of Sultan Mahmiid of Ghazni, no account is to be traced of its history. Mahmud conquered Multan from the infidels ; but on the decline of the Ghazni power, the inhabitants succeeded in expelling the Muhammadans, and establishing a separate govern- ment. From the period of its subjugation by Muhammad Ghori, it remained tributary to Dehli until the year 1443 A. D., 847 A. H. when the governor of that province like most others of the kingdom at the same period, declared independence. After which time several princes reigned in succession. The first of these was one Shaikh Yusaf a man of learning, wisdom and high character, o£ the tribe of Kureish, whom the inhabitants of Multan selected to be ruler over the people of Multan and Uchcha, when the public prayers were read and money coined in his name. Shaikh Yusaf had reigned but two years, when his father-in-law, Rae Sehra of the tribe of Langa having seized him, sent him under a guard to Dehlf, and mounted the throne under the title of Kutb- uddin Mahmud Langa. Abii'l Fazl in the 'Ayin-i-Akbari, assigns seventeen years for the reign of Shaikh Yiisaf. Muhammadan kings of Multan. A. D. Shaikh Yusaf who estabUshed an independent monarchy, began 1443 Rae Sehra or Kutb-uddrn Mahmud Langa 1445 Husain Langa I Mahmud Khan Langa 1502 Husain Langa TI, who began 1524 A. D., was over- come by Shah Husain Arghiin, and subsequently Multan became a province of the empire under the emperor Humayun. Yusaf, Shaikh of Gujrat, J'^j^ ^"ji author of the " Tazkirat-ul-Atkiya." Yusaf Khan, ^-^Ji, governor of Sindh, who Kve in the time of the emperor Shah Jahan. In his time (says Munshi Lutf-ullah) he built an I'dgah, in Tatta a splendid mosque, where all true believers gather together twice a year, and perform the divine service. Its in- scription is in beautiful large NastaHk characters, as foUows : — " Ydsaf Khan, the powerful lord, erected this place of worship as high as his fortune. The year of its finishing is found by cherubion — the temple of Makka for the vir- tuous." 1633 A. D., 1043 A. H. There are upwards of 400 mosques in the city of Tatta, (says Lutf-ullah) but almost all of them going to decay. There is also a Grand Mosque (Juma Masjid) begun by Shah Jahan, in 1647 A. D., 1057 A. H. and finished by Aurangzeib in 1072 A. H. The edifice is a magnificent one about 200 yards long by 30 broad, built of baked bricks and mortar. The whole site is roofed with 100 domes, every one of them painted in a different style from another. The inscriptions carved round the great arch of stone, and those upon the two Lata stones, are excel- lently done in large letters. In short, the whole scene presents a picture of beauty and solemnity to the spec- tator. 72