A History of Assam c19.11

c19.11

The conquest of Gaur by the Muhammadans is ascribed by tradition to Shah Jalāl of Yemen.* The legend is well known, but it contains scarcely any historical facts. The Saint is said to have died in 1189 A.D., but on the other hand, he is said to have come to Delhi during the reign of Sultan Ala-ud-din (1296 to 1316 A.D.)) and to have gone to Sylhet with the army commanded by Sikandar Shah, the Sultan's nephew. This tradition is confirmed by a Muhammadan inscription of 1512 A.D. in which it is said that the conquest of Sylhet was effected by Sikandar Khan Ghazi in the reign of Firuz Shah (of Bengal) in 1303 A.D.† It may therefore be concluded that the north-west portion of Sylhet fell into the hands of the Muhammadans in the early part of the fourteenth century.