The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c27.114

v3.c27.114

Ahmad transferred his devotion from the successor of Gīsū Darāz to Ni‘matullāh, the famous saint of Māhān, but failed to attract the holy man himself to India, and had to content himself with his son Khalīlullāh, surnamed *Butshikan*, ‘the Iconoclast,’ who visited Bīdar and whose shrine, a cenotaph, is still to be seen there. The saint’s family were Shiahs, and it is clear, from the inscriptions in Ahmad’s tomb, that they converted him to that faith, but his religion was a personal matter, and he wisely refrained from interfering with that of his subjects. The first militant Shiah ruler in India was Yūsuf ‘Ādil Shāh of Bījāpur.