Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah

{{Short description|Sultan of Golconda from 1612 to 1626}}

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{{Infobox Monarch

| name = Muhammad Qutb Shah

| title =

| succession = 6th Sultan of Golconda

| image = Portrait of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah of Golconda.jpg

| reign = 11 January 1612 – 9 February 1626

| coronation =

| predecessor = Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

| successor = Abdullah Qutb Shah

| spouse = Daughter of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
Hayat Bakshi Begum (m. 1607)
Khurshid Bibi

| issue = Abdullah Qutb Shah
Khadija Sultana (wife of Muhammad Adil Shah)Islamic Culture: The Hyderabad Quarterly Review, Volumes 41-43 (1979), p. 66
Ibrahim Mirza
Sultan Quli Mirza
Mirza Kamal

| royal house = Qutb Shahi dynasty

| father = Muhammad Amin

| mother = Khanum Agha

| birth_date = 1593

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1626|02|09|1593|||df=y}}

| death_place =

| place of burial = Qutb Shahi tombs, Hyderabad, India

|religion= Shia Islam

}}

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Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the sixth ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.

He ruled from 11 January 1612 until his death on 9 February 1626.{{Sfn|Zore|1941|p=175}} He was the nephew and son-in-law of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, having married Muhammad's only daughter Hayat Bakshi Begum in 1607.

The first Qutb Shahi history was compiled during his reign known as the Tarikh-i Qutb Shahi. His son, Abdullah Qutub Shah, later became the Shah of Golconda.

In 1620, as then ruler of Golconda, Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah had decided to move his capital away from Golconda and Hyderabad. He selected a site about {{convert|6|mi|km}} east of then Hyderabad, what is today Saroornagar. The fort was named after himself and called as Sultan Nagar Fort. The construction of this fort was abandoned by his wife Hayat Bakshi Begum who considered his sudden death in 1626 as a bad omen.{{Cite web|url=https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/21523|title=Sultan Nagar Fort|publisher=MIT Libraries|access-date=2024-08-06}}

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is carrying out the conservation effort on the sprawling necropolis in collaboration with Department of Archaeology and Museums, Telangana.{{Cite news|last=Nanisetti|first=Serish|date=2021-03-12|title=Glory of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah tomb uncovered|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/glory-of-quli-qutb-shah-tomb-uncovered/article34054286.ece|access-date=2021-03-15|issn=0971-751X}}