Muqabil Khan
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{{infobox officeholder
| name = Muqabil Khan
| image = Sylhet02.jpg
| caption = The tomb of Shah Jalal. Muqabil Khan was buried in close proximity to this revered fourteenth-century saint.
| title = Wazir of Srihat
| term = 1440
| predecessor = Unknown
| monarch = Mahmud Shah I
| successor = Khurshid Khan
| death_date = 15th century
| death_place = Sylhet
| resting_place = Dargah of Shah Jalal, Sylhet
}}
Muqabil Khan ({{langx|bn|মুকাবিল খান}}, {{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|مقابل خان}}}}), also known as Maqbul Khan ({{langx|bn|মকবুল খান}}, {{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|مقبول خان}}}}), was a wazir and sar-e-lashkar of Srihat (Sylhet) in 1440.{{cite book|title=Hazrat Shah Jalal O Sileter Itihas|author=Syed Murtaza Ali}} He was the wazir of Sylhet in 1440 during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah of the restored Ilyas Shahi dynasty.{{cite book|title=Sileter Mati Sileter Manush|author=Fazlur Rahman|pages=13 & 74|publisher=MA Sattar|year=1991}} It is unknown when Khan's office started and how long he was wazir for. After his death, he was buried in the dargah of Shah Jalal, to the west of Jalal's tomb.{{cite book|title=Muslim monuments of Bangladesh|author=Sayed Mahmudul Hasan|page=246|publisher=Islamic Foundation Bangladesh|year=1987}} There is a gap between Haydar Ghazi, wazir of Sylhet in the mid-fourteenth century, and Khan as the governors of Sylhet during that time is unknown. The next known successor of Muqabil Khan was Khurshid Khan who governed Sylhet in the 1460s.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}
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|title=Wazir of Srihat
|before=Unknown
|years=1440
|after=Khurshid Khan}}
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Category:15th-century Indian monarchs
Category:15th-century Indian Muslims
Category:Bengal Sultanate officers
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