The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.65

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Safavī, of Persia, was less favourably received. The envoy, Yādgār Beg Qizilbāsh, was commissioned to invite Mahmūd to embrace the Shiah faith, but Mahmūd, whose health was failing, had refreshed his orthodoxy by visits to the shrines of saints at Pātan and Sarkhej, and sent a message to the heretics bidding them begone. He had already designated his son Muzaffar as his heir, and feeling the approach of death summoned him from Baroda. Muzaffar arrived only in time to assist in bearing his father's coffin from Ahmadābād to his tomb at Sarkhej, for Mahmūd I, the greatest of the sultans of Gujarāt, had breathed his last on November 23, 1511.