The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.102

v3.c29.102

During the short reign of Ismā'īl all power in Ahmadnagar was in the hands of Jamāl Khān, a native Muslim who was followed by the Deccani party. He belonged to a sect which then, in the closing years of the tenth century of the era of the *Hijra*, had some vogue. These heretics were the *Mahdavīs*, who confidently expected the manifestation, in the year 1000 of the Islamic era, of the *Mahdī*, the twelfth *Imām*, who was to establish Islam throughout the world. Jamāl Khān disestablished the state religion and persecuted both orthodox Sunnis and heterodox Shiahs.