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His Jong career extending over forty years is closely associated with the glorious reigns of Mohammad Shah II and Feroz Shah Bahmanl, He started life as a scholar, propagated art and science throughout the kingdom· and imparted higher education to the princes of royal blood.
It is strange that the author of Burhan-i-Ma' iithir, who is considered to be a reliable authority the history of the Deccan, makes no mention whatever of Fac;llullah who figures so prominently in the Bahmani Deccan; Even the history of Ferishta which is the only source of information about Fadlullah is silent about his early life in Shiraz and elsewhere, although the same history gives a detailed account of his later career in the Deccan.
in the reign· of Mohammad Shah II, but in the time of some previous king, because the sudden rise of a stranger like Fadlullah to the Ecclesiastical Minister im- · mediately after his advent was improbable.
It is true that he held the post of religious affairs either in the earlier or later part of Mohammad Shah's reign ; but there are grounds to believe that he had come to the Deccan and was introduced to the people and the government long before he became Minister.
The siege of the fort of Vijayanagar was, however, continued by Feroz Shah, which ended in as many as eight skirmishes and all in favour of the Bahmanis, but the actions of Ahmed Khan and Fadlullah brought inestimable success to the Bahmani cause.