Majlis Alam

Alam was the son of Musa ibn Haji Amir Khan.[3] According to the Rajmala, his grandfather, Haji Amir Khan, was an army commander for Sultan Rukunuddin Barbak Shah and governed parts of Tripura.[4] Majlis Alam was a common rank and title given by the Sultanate to a number of people and so the minister's real name is unknown.[5]

Alam was known to have established many mosques throughout Sylhet.[6] In 1472, he erected a replica of Pandua's Adina Mosque in Chowkidekhi (Chowkidighi Mahalla).[7] This mosque would be destroyed by a later ruler of Sylhet, Isfandiyar Khan Beg, in the 1660s.[8] The inscriptions here refers to himself as the Great Majlis, the Minister, the Messenger towards goodness (Arabic: مجلس العظم المعظم الدستور الساعي في الخيرات والمبرات المجلس الأعلى, romanized: Majlis al-ʿAzam al-Muʿazzam al-Dastūr, al-Sāʿi fil-Khayrāt wal-Mubarrāt al-Majlis al-Aʿlā).[9] In 1476, Alam and his father also constructed the Goyghor Mosque in present-day Moulvibazar.[10] He may have also constructed a small mosque in Choti Dargah in Hazrat Pandua in 1479 as the builder of that mosque goes by "Majlis al-Majālis Majlis Aʿlā".[9]

• Haydar Ghazi
• History of Sylhet
• Lutfullah Shirazi