غياث الدين بلبن
| غياث الدين بلبن | |
|---|---|
| ظل إلهي نيابة-خدا (الحاكم بالنيابة عن الله) Khuda-i-Vandgar (Devotee of God) | |
 صورة منمنمة لبلبن، ح. 1900, المكتبة البريطانية | |
| سلطان دلهي | |
| العهد | 18 February 1266 – 13 January 1287 |
| التتويج | 18 فبراير 1266 at مجمع قطب منار |
| سبقه | نصير الدين محمود الأول |
| تبعه | معز الدين قيقباد |
| Heir-apparent | محمد خان (1266–1285) كيخسرو (1285–1287) |
| وُلِد | بهاء الدين 1216 تركستان، آسيا الوسطى |
| توفي | 13 January 1287[1] (aged 71–72) دلهي، سلطنة دلهي (modern-day Delhi, India) |
| الدفن | |
| الأنجال | محمد خان Nasiruddin Bughra Khan |
| البيت | بيت بلبن |
| الأسرة | Ilbari dynasty |
| الديانة | الإسلام السني |
غياث الدين بلبان (1200 - 1286) بالإنجليزية Ghiyas ud din Balban ، هو حاكم تركي مسلم وهو تاسع سلاطنة دلهي الذين حكموا في عهد المماليك في الهند ، وقد تولى الحكم في الفترة (1266 - 1286).
His original name was Baha-ud-Din. He was an Ilbari Turk. When he was young he was captured by the Mongols, taken to Ghazni and sold to Khawaja Jamal-ud-din of Basra, a Sufi. The latter then brought him to Delhi in 1232 along with other slaves, and all of them were purchased by Iltutmish.[بحاجة لمصدر] Balban belonged to the famous group of 40 Turkic slaves of Iltutmish.[2]
Ghayas made several conquests, some of them as wazir. He routed the people of Mewat that harassed Delhi and reconquered Bengal, all while successfully facing the Mongol threat, during which his son died. After his death in 1287, his grandson Qaiqabad was nominated sultan, though his rule undermined the success made under his grandfather's reign.
In spite of having only a few military achievements, Balban reformed civil and military lines that earned him a stable and prosperous government granting him the position, along with Shams ud-Din Iltutmish and the later Alauddin Khalji, one of the most powerful rulers of Delhi Sultanate.[بحاجة لمصدر]
الحكم
كان غياث الدين بلبان ، من [مماليك] السلطان شمس الدين إلتـُتـْمـِش. توسم السلطان فيه النجابة فقربه إليه, وأخذ يترقى ويتدرج في المناصب حتى بلغ أعلاها. أعتقه السلطان وزوجه إبنته, ولما تولى السلطنة ناصر الدين محمود بعد وفاة والده ألتمش سنة 633هـ جعله وزيره, فأبدى من الكفاءة والمقدرة وحسن تدبير الأمور ما جعله الحاكم الفعلي في البلاد, وظل وزيرا مدة عشرين عاما. ولما توفي ناصر الدين محمود سنة 664هـ قام بالملك من بعده. أخمد الفتن التي كان يثيرها بعض المماليك وقضى على نفوذهم، كما أخمد ثورة في البنغال ونظم الدفاع عن الحدود ضد غارات المغول. كان من خيرة السلاطين سيرة في رعيته. بذل جهده في تعمير البلاد وسد الثغور وكان عادلا فاضلا, حليما محبا لأهل العلم, محسنا إليهم. يقول الرحالة ابن بطوطة (إنه بنى دارا سماها دار الأمن، فمن دخلها من أهل الديون قضى دينه ومن دخلها خائفا أمن).
الحملات العسكرية
.jpg&filetimestamp=20251117002326&) عملة ذهبية لغياث الدين بلبن (664-686 هـ المناظر 1266-1287 م). تذكر الخليفة العباسي المستعصم. صك دلهي. بتاريخ 677 هـ (1278-9 م). |
Balban's reign, according to Ziauddin Barani, was to install 'Fear of the governing power, which is the basis of all good government.' Furthermore, he "maintained that the Sultan was the 'shadow of God' and introduced rigorous court discipline." He depended upon Turkish nobility but formed an army of 2 lakh made up of all castes. A portion of this army was made up of commandos.[3] Balban had several military achievements during his vizierhood, first raising the Mongol siege of Uch under Masud Shah in 1246.[4]
When the governor of Bengal, Tughral Tughan Khan, revoked the authority of Delhi in 1275, Balban first sent the governor of Awadh and then a second army, both of which met with failure. Balban then accompanied a third army which reconquered the countryside, killing Tughral and his followers. His son, Nasiruddin Bughra Khan, assisted him in this mission.[5] Balban then placed his second son, Bughra Khan, as governor. However, Bughra declared independence after Balban's death, which he maintained for 40 years.[3]
One of the famous military campaigns of Balban was against Meo, or Mayo, the people of Mewat who used to plunder the people of Delhi even in the daylight. The distress caused by the Meo is well described in Barani's words: He has killed many Meos in his military campaign.[بحاجة لمصدر]
- The turbulence of the Mewatis had increased, and their strength had grown in the neighbourhood of Dehli, through the dissolute habits and negligence of the elder sons of Shams ud-dín, and the incapacity of the youngest, Násir-ud-dín. At night they used to come prowling into the city, giving all kinds of trouble, depriving the people of their rest; and they plundered the country houses in the neighbourhood of the city. In the neighbourhood of Dehli there were large and dense jungles, through which many roads passed. The disaffected in the Doáb, and the outlaws towards Hindustan grew bold and took to robbery on the highway, and they so beset the roads that caravans and merchants were unable to pass. The daring of the Mewatis in the neighbourhood of Dehli was carried to such an extent that the western gates of the city were shut at afternoon prayer, and no one dared to go out of the city in that direction after that hour, whether he travelled as a pilgrim or with the display of a sovereign. At afternoon prayer the Mewatis would often come to the Sar-hauz, and assaulting the water-carriers and the girls who were fetching water, they would strip them and carry off their clothes. These daring acts of the Mewatis had caused a great ferment in Delhi.[بحاجة لمصدر]
Balban took upon himself the exterminating of the turbulent tribes of Mewat and Awadh, destroying strongholds and villages. He then built military outposts, gave land to soldiers and Afghans to settle. He garrisoned forts at key locations, cleared forests and ensured safe roads. He also unsuccessfully laid siege to the fortress of Ranthambore, but did recapture Gwalior from the Rajputs.[3]
In 1247, Balban suppressed a rising of the Chandela Chief of Kalinjar.[بحاجة لمصدر]
Balban's military reign also distinguished with his success in repelling Mongol army. This could be achieved because his cavalry horses were better suited to Indian climate and naturally bred larger than Mongol's horses. The extreme heat of summer constituted the Mongols' problem in India, as the quotation from Juvaini indicates. Their incursions seem to have been brief, even when not defeated by the forces of Delhi, and to have taken place in winter, because only then was it cool enough for the comfort of the Mongols' horses.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
عهدُه كسلطان
Since Sultan Nasiruddin did not have a male heir, after his death, Balban declared himself the Sultan of Delhi. Balban ascended the throne in 1266 at the age of fifty with the title of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din-Balban.
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During his reign, Balban ruled with an iron fist. He broke up the 'Chahalgani', a group of the forty most important nobles in the court. Balban wanted to make sure everyone was loyal to the crown by establishing an efficient espionage system, in the style of the Umayyad Barid. Sultan Balban had a strong and well-organized intelligence system. Balban employed spies, barids, to inform on his officials. He placed secret reporters and news-writers in every department. The spies were independent authority who were only answerable to Sultan.
Furthermore, Balban had his nobles punished most harshly for any mishap, including severe treatment of their own slaves. One of his nobles, Malik Baqbaq, the governor of Budaun, was punished for ordering one of his slaves to be beaten to death, apparently when being drunk. Another governor, Haibat Khan, was handed over to the slave's widow for punishment.[3] About his justice Dr. Ishwari Prasad remarked "So great was the dread of Sultan's inexorable justice that no one dared to ill-treat his servant and slaves."
Balban re-organised the military against the threat of the Mongols. He re-organised the revenues of the Iqtadars, which have been passed on to the children of their original holders from the time of Shams ud-din, or maintained their hold of the Iqta even after they ceased to serve in the military. The old Muqta's, who could not serve as military commanders (umara) for their revenue, were to be dismissed from their fief and settled with a pension of forty to fifty tankas. The younger Muqtas had been taxed for the surplus revenue (which was not taken from them as it should have) and the children and women who took possession of the Iqta of their forebears, were to be deprived of their Iqtas and compensated with the money required to sustain them. However, he was partially dissuaded from this ruling due to the advice of the old Kotwal, Fakhr ud-din, and the old nobles retained their lands.
Balban's steps against the nobility were so extreme as to raise suspicion from his brother, Sher Khan, who is said to have never visited Delhi. It appears that resentment between the brothers had to come to a degree that made the Sultan poison his brother.
"Balban's court was an austere assembly where zest and laughter were unknown and where wine and gambling were banished." He "introduced rigorous court discipline such as prostration before the king and kissing his feet." Nevertheless, Ghiyas-ud-din Balban still went on hunting expeditions, though these were more frequently used as a form of military training.[3] There were large scale conversions to Islam in Punjab under his reign. Balban was the first who introduced the famous Persian Festival of Nowruz.[12]
Balban was a fervent patron of the Persian language and himself encouraged Persian poetry. He started Iranian method Sajda and Paibos to the sultan in India. He also introduced the Persian festival Nowruz (meaning New year). He was also referred to as the Niyabat-i-Khuda (Vice-regency of God).
وفاته
توفي بعد حياة حافلة بالأحداث، وقد أوصى بولاية عهده إلى حفيده (كيخسرو) ابن ابنه محمد الذي قتل في حروبه مع المغول. [13][3]
During Qaiqubad's reign (1287–1290), his father, Bughra Khan, asserted independence in Bengal. Qaiqubad was very weak and incompetent and eventually fell to stroke and had to pass the rule to his three year old son, Shamsuddin Kayumars, who was eventually dethroned by his guardian, Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji in 1290, bringing an end to the Slave dynasty.[بحاجة لمصدر]
Today, Tomb of Balban lies within the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Delhi, adjacent to which stands that of his son Khan Shahid and a walled mosque. The domes of both the tombs have collapsed and the structures were mostly ruined until restored in recent years when the conservation work began in the park.[بحاجة لمصدر]
انظر أيضا
المصادر
- ^ "Ghayas ud din Balban".
- ^ Bhat, R.A History of Medieval India pp. 66–68
- ^ أ ب ت ث ج ح خطأ استشهاد: وسم
<ref>غير صحيح؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماةsen2 - ^ Rizvi, S. A. A. (2022-09-29). The Wonder That Was India: Volume 2 (in الإنجليزية). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-93-95624-33-6.
- ^ Ali, Muhammad Ansar (2012). "Bughra Khan". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Smith Jr., John Masson (December 1984). "Ayn Jālūt: Mamlūk Success or Mongol Failure?". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 44 (2): 307–345. doi:10.2307/2719035. JSTOR 2719035.
- ^ Smith Jr., John Masson (January–March 1998). "Nomads on Ponies vs. Slaves on Horses". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 118 (1): 54–62. doi:10.2307/606298. JSTOR 606298.
- ^ Ṭabīb, Rashid al-Din (1971). The Successors of Genghis Khan. Translated by Boyle, John Andrew. Columbia University Press. p. 52 and n. 197.
- ^ Ibn Batuta (1962). The Travels of Ibn Battuta. Vol. II. Translated by Gibb, H.A.R. Cambridge University Press. p. 478.
- ^ Boyle, John Andrew (June 1963). "The Mongol Commanders in Afghanistan and India According to the Ṭabaqāt-I NāṢirī of Jūzjānī". Islamic Studies. 2 (2): 235–247. JSTOR 20832685.
- ^ Smith Jr., John Masson. "MONGOL ARMIES AND INDIAN CAMPAIGNS". mongolian culture. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
- ^ Habib, Mohammad. Some Aspects of the Foundation of the Delhi Sultanate. Dr. K.M. Ashraf Memorial Lecture (Delhi, 1966) p.20.
- ^ موسوعة كلمات
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| سبقه ناصر الدين محمود |
المماليك في الهند | تبعه معز الدين قيقباد |
| سبقه ناصر الدين محمود |
سلطان دلهي | تبعه معز الدين قيقباد |
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