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" Maḥmūd Gāvān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Flatt, Emma
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English
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1062636
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ALei3033
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Flatt, Emma
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Maḥmūd Gāvān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Flatt, Emma
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(3,038 words)
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Kh v āja ʿImād al-Dīn Maḥmūd Gīlānī (813–86/1411–81), commonly known as Maḥmūd Gāvān , was a powerful vizier of the Bahmanī sultanate of South India. Born into a politically important family in Gīlān, Gāvān seems initially to have entered service with the rulers of Gīlān (Sherwani, Gawan , 22–4, citing al-Sakhāwī). Following the death of his father, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Kh v āja Kamāl al-Gīlānī, Maḥmūd and his elder brother Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad were forced into exile by a rival political faction,
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Islam.
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ALei3033.pdf
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