MUHAMMAD IBN TUGHLUQ

born c. 1290, , Delhi, India died March 20, 1351, Sonda second sultan of the Tughluq dynasty (reigned 132551), who briefly extended the rule of the Delhi sultanate of northern India over most of the subcontinent. As a result of misguided administrative actions and unexampled severity toward his opponents, he eventually lost his authority in the south; at the end of his reign, the sultanate had begun to decline in power. Additional reading Aghi Mahdi Husain, The Rise and Fall of Muhammad ibn Tughluq (1938, reissued 1972).