Abstract
Set in the lush surroundings of the village of Ashtur near Bidar, Karnataka is one of the royal tomb complexes of the Bahmanids (1347-1528), among them the tomb that belongs to Aḥmad Shāh Bahmanī (r. 1422-1436). A patron of the Sufi saints during his reign, Aḥmad Shāh was well-known in the fifteenth-century Iran for his patronage of the Sufi, Shāh Neʿmatollāh Valī (d.1431) who founded the Neʿmatollāhī Sufi order in central Iran in the fourteenth century. The pinnacle of Aḥmad Shāh’s patronage of the Sufi order was funding the mausoleum of the Sufi saint in Mahan, Iran. The aim of this essay is to show – based on the inscriptions in the interior of Aḥmad Shāh’s tomb – how the relationship between the Bahmanī ruler and the Sufi order has been translated into architecture in the tomb of Aḥmad Shāh Bahmanī.
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