Majlis Alam

Alam was the son of Musa ibn Haji Amir Khan.{{cite book|language=bn|title=Sileter Mati, Sileter Manush|first=Fazlur|last=Rahman|year=1991|publisher=M A Sattar|location=Sylhet District}} According to the Rajmala, his grandfather, Haji Amir Khan, was an army commander for Sultan Rukunuddin Barbak Shah and governed parts of Tripura.{{cite news|url=http://www.dailysangram.com/post/62024-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%9C-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%90%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95-%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A3-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%A3|work=The Daily Sangram|date=27 Aug 2011|script-title=bn:গয়গড় শিলালিপি ঐতিহাসিক উপকরণ বিশ্লেষণ|language=bn}} 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.{{cite book|title=History of Bengal, Turko-Afghan Period|last=Roy|first=Atul Chandra|publisher=Kalyani Publishers|year=1986|page=245|location=West Bengal}}

Alam was known to have established many mosques throughout Sylhet.{{cite news |url=https://www.banglanews24.com/opar-mohimar-ramadan/news/bd/718628.details |newspaper=Banglanews24.com |script-title=bn:পাঁচশতাধিক বছরের ঐতিহাসিক ‘খোজার মসজিদ’ |last=Khan |first=Mahmud H |language=bn}} In 1472, he erected a replica of Pandua's Adina Mosque in Chowkidekhi (Chowkidighi Mahalla).{{cite book|title=Mahe-Nao|last=Hossain|first=T|year=1963|volume=15|issue=7-12}} This mosque would be destroyed by a later ruler of Sylhet, Isfandiyar Khan Beg, in the 1660s.{{cite book|title=The Proceedings Of The All Pakistan History Conference|year=1900|volume=1|chapter=A chronology of Muslim faujdars of Sylhet|publisher=Pakistan Historical Society|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66554|location=Karachi|authorlink=Syed Mohammad Ali|first=Syed Mohammad|last=Ali|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66554/page/n292 276]-277}} The inscriptions here refers to himself as the Great Majlis, the Minister, the Messenger towards goodness ({{langx|ar|مجلس العظم المعظم الدستور الساعي في الخيرات والمبرات المجلس الأعلى|Majlis al-ʿAzam al-Muʿazzam al-Dastūr, al-Sāʿi fil-Khayrāt wal-Mubarrāt al-Majlis al-Aʿlā}}).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126929|title=Asiatic Society Of Pakistan Vol-ii|year=1957|authorlink=Ahmad Hasan Dani|first=Ahmad Hasan|last=Dani|chapter=Analysis of the Inscriptions|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126929/page/n15 7] and 103}} In 1476, Alam and his father also constructed the Goyghor Mosque in present-day Moulvibazar.{{cite book|title=Hazrat Shah Jalal O Sileter Itihas|authorlink=Syed Murtaza Ali|first=Syed Murtaza|last=Ali|page=297|year=1965}} 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".

• Haydar Ghazi
• History of Sylhet
• Lutfullah Shirazi

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