Ilyas shahi

The Ilyas Shahi were the first independent Sunni Muslim dynasty of the Bengal Sultanate, founded by Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah. He began as an officer under Izz al-Din Yahya, governor of Satgaon; when Yahya died in 1338 he seized Satgaon and declared himself independent of Delhi, and by 1342 he had conquered Lakhnauti and Sonargaon, uniting Bengal into a single sultanate.

His son Sikandar Shah raised the Adina Masjid at Pandua in 1368. The first line ended in 1414 when the Hindu landowner Raja Ganesha seized power, but in 1436 Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, a descendant of Ilyas Shah, restored the dynasty.

It ruled from Gaur until 1487, when Sultan Jalaluddin Fatih Shah was murdered by his Habshi guard commander and the house gave way to Abyssinian rulers.