The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.155

v4.c19.155

Ibrāhīm ‘Ādil Shāh II died in September, 1627, and was succeeded by his son Muhammad ‘Ādil Shāh. Ibrāhīm, unlike most of his house, was a Sunnī but in the later years of his reign he associated much with Hindus, who gave him the title of *Jagad-Gurū*, or "Spiritual Guide of the World". His Muslim subjects murmured that their king had become an infidel, like Akbar, but a historian asserts that he never wavered in devotion to the orthodox faith and that the tendency to associate with Hindus was due only to love of music, admitting at the same time that he imitated some of the superstitious invocations of Sāraswatī employed by Hindu musicians.