Twilight of the Sultanate c14.s1.18

c14.s1.18

¹⁹ 'Abdulla says that Sikandar was 18 years of age at the time of his accession, but he is incorrect. Almost all chroniclers say that he was born in the seventh year of Bahlūl's reign. Bahlūl ascended the throne in 1451 and so Sikandar must have been born in 1457 or 1458. In 1489 he would have been thirty-one. That he was advanced in age is confirmed by Ni'āmatulla and Nizāmuddīn who say that Sikandar had six sons at the time of his accession