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Discover the golden age of Muslim civilisation. All Rights Reserved. Even when she rose to power as Sultan, she would mount an elephant as the chief of her army in the battlefield, with her face displayed in public.
Razia Sultan fought on the forefront and won battles seizing various territories. Her gender was never an excuse. She mastered administration, rubbing shoulders with the best Sultans Delhi had ever been ruled by. She established a host of schools, academies, centres for research, and public libraries. One such noble was Malik Ikhtiar-ud-din Altunia, the then governor of Bhatinda, who conspired against Razia. She fought tooth and nail with her army against him but suffered a miserable defeat.
Altunia imprisoned Razia at Qila Mubarak in Bathinda. Many nobles tried to assassinate her character claiming she was in a romantic relationship with one of her Abyssinian slaves — Jamaluddin Yaqut, who was killed in the battle that ensued between Razia and Altunia. Some historians suggest Razia was treated royally as a prisoner because Altunia was in love with her all along.
In , Razia and now her husband, Altunia, decided to seize and reclaim the lost kingdom from her brother. They fled Delhi and reached Kaithal the next day.
Runk-ud-din was raised as throne instead. On 9 November , Firuz and his mother got assassinated and this time, Razia became the first Muslim Woman ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. Razia, in no manner, was any less than the great Sultans of the Delhi Sultanate.
She fought several battles on the forefront and lead to the seize of several territories. She had mastered the administration. She lead to the establishment of various schools, academies, research centres and libraries.
The school preached the Quran and the work of People in Science, philosophy astronomy and literature. The Nobles from Turkish were not appreciating of the fact that a woman is with the throne. They were apprehensive and jealous of it. Hence, the made a plan to revolt against Razia. They hatched a conspiracy with Ikhtiar -ud — din Aitigin as the leader of the conspiracy. He was raised from the office Badaun.
A Muslim descendant of Turkish extraction invaded in India in the eleventh century writing the death of Razia. Razia died in
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