Twilight of the Sultanate c8.s4.18

c8.s4.18

Ahmad Shāh ruled for thirty years. During this period, he waged wars and extended his dominions. He administered the country with courage and sagacity and propagated the Islamic faith to which the house had been converted only three generations ago. He shifted his capital to Karnawatī, renamed it Ahmadābād,¹⁰⁵ and adorned it with forts, mosques, gates, tombs and other beautiful buildings. Besides, success always attended Ahmad's campaigns against the rulers of Malwa and other neighbouring princes like those of Idar, Champanēr, Dūngarpur and Mewar. His only defect (not in the eyes of Muslim chroniclers) was that he was a bigoted ruler. He died in A.D. 1442.