• DOI:10.1017/S1356186311000885
• Corpus ID: 163000586

On Becoming Muslim in the City of Swords: Bhoja and Shaykh Changāl at Dhār*

@article{Babagolzadeh2012OnBM,
  title={On Becoming Muslim in the City of Swords: Bhoja and Shaykh Changāl at Dhār*},
  author={Razieh Babagolzadeh},
  journal={Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society},
  year={2012},
  volume={22},
  pages={115 - 127}
}

• Razieh Babagolzadeh
• Published 1 January 2012
• History
• Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

On the ancient ramparts of the city of Dhār, overlooking the moat, is the tomb of a saint called Shaykh Changāl (Fig. 1). The tomb has been rebuilt in recent times, but stands on a high stone platform dating to the fifteenth century. The long staircase up to the tomb has two arched gates. A Persian inscription is placed in the upper gate over the door and is protected nowadays by a metal door. Written in forty-two verses, it is dated ah 859/ 1454–55. The verses were composed in the reign of the Maḥmūd Shāh Khaljī, the Sultan of Mālwā from 1436 to 1469. The purpose of this essay is to provide the text of this inscription with a new translation and commentary.