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'''Alp Khan''' (died December 1315<ref name="n301">{{cite web | last=Misra | first=S. C. | title=The Rise of Muslim Power in Gujarat | url=https://ia601902.us.archive.org/15/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.111119/2015.111119.The-Rise-Of-Muslim-Power-In-Gujarat_text.pdf | access-date=2 December 2025 | page=213}}</ref>) was a general and brother-in-law of the [[Delhi Sultanate]] ruler [[Alauddin Khalji]]. He served as Alauddin's governor of [[Gujarat]], and held considerable influence at the royal court of Delhi during the last years of Alauddin's life. He was executed on the charges of conspiring to kill Alauddin, possibly because of a conspiracy by [[Malik Kafur]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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Alp Khan was originally named Junaid,{{sfn|Iqtidar Alam Khan|2008|p=24}} and was later called [[Malik]] Sanjar. He appears to have come from a family of [[Khalji]] chiefs.{{sfn|Iqtidar Alam Khan|2008|p=24}} According to [[Isami (historian)|Isami]], Alauddin had brought him up as a child.{{sfn|Peter Jackson|2003|p=171}}<br />
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Upon becoming the Sultan of Delhi in 1296, Alauddin gave him the title Alp Khan ("Powerful [[Khan (title)|Khan]]").{{sfn|Sunil Kumar|2013|p=61}} Alp Khan's sister (named Mahru, according to the 16th-17th century chronicler Haji-ud-Dabir{{sfn|Kishori Saran Lal|1950|p=42}}) married Alauddin: Khizr Khan was the issue of this marriage.{{sfn|Iqtidar Alam Khan|2008|p=24}}<br />
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== Career ==<br />
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Alauddin appointed Alp Khan as ''Amir-i-Majlis'' (chief of protocol), and granted him the [[iqta']] of [[Multan]]. In c. 1310, Alauddin granted Alp Khan the iqta' of [[Gujarat]].{{sfn|Peter Jackson|2003|p=171}} The [[Jain]] works praise Alp Khan for allowing reconstruction of the shrines destroyed by the Muslim conquerors.{{sfn|Iqtidar Alam Khan|2008|p=24}} Kakka Suri's ''[[Nabhi-nandana-jinoddhara-prabandha]]'' records the [[Shatrunjaya]] temple renovation permitted by him.{{sfn|John Cort|2010|pp=213-214}}<br />
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In 1308, Alauddin ordered Alp Khan to support [[Malik Kafur]] during the [[Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Devagiri|invasion of Devagiri]]. Alp Khan's forces invaded [[Baglana]], where the [[Vaghela dynasty|Vaghela]] king [[Karna (Vaghela dynasty)|Karna]] had been given a principality by the Devagiri ruler [[Ramachandra of Devagiri|Ramachandra]]. Alp Khan's soldiers were unable to apprehend Karna, but managed to capture Karna's daughter [[Devaladevi]]. Alp Khan sent her to Delhi, where she was married to his nephew Khizr Khan.{{sfn|Kishori Saran Lal|1950|pp=190-191}}{{sfn|Banarsi Prasad Saksena|1992|pp=402-403}}<br />
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== Death ==<br />
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Alp Khan's daughters married Alauddin's sons Khizr Khan and Shadi Khan.{{sfn|Peter Jackson|2003|p=176}} As the maternal uncle and the father-in-law of the [[heir apparent]] Khizr Khan, Alp Khan held considerable influence at the Delhi court, especially during the last years of Alauddin's life. In 1315, when Alauddin suffered from a serious illness, Alp allegedly vied with Alauddin's slave-viceroy [[Malik Kafur]] for control of power.{{sfn|Iqtidar Alam Khan|2008|p=24}} Kafur convinced Alauddin to sanction the murder of Alp Khan. It was alleged that Alp Khan, his sister and Khizr Khan had conspired to poison Alauddin in order to make Khizr Khan the new king. However, this might have been Kafur's propaganda.{{sfn|Peter Jackson|2003|p=176}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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=== Bibliography ===<br />
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* {{cite book |author=Banarsi Prasad Saksena |author-link=Banarsi Prasad Saksena |chapter=The Khaljis: Alauddin Khalji |editor=[[Mohammad Habib]] and [[K. A. Nizami]] |title=A Comprehensive History of India: The Delhi Sultanat (A.D. 1206-1526) |volume=5 |edition=Second |year=1992 |orig-year=1970 |publisher=The Indian History Congress / People's Publishing House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9cmAQAAMAAJ |oclc=31870180 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Iqtidar Alam Khan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iGSKTttoa3IC&pg=PR24 |title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval India |publisher=Scarecrow |year=2008 |isbn=9780810864016 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=John Cort |title=Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0IF2CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT392 |year=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-045257-5 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Kishori Saran Lal |author-link=K. S. Lal |title=History of the Khaljis (1290-1320) |year=1950 |publisher=The Indian Press |location=Allahabad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XXqAQAACAAJ |oclc=685167335 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Peter Jackson|author-link=Peter Jackson (historian)|title=The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lt2tqOpVRKgC&pg=PA221 |year=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-54329-3 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Sunil Kumar |chapter=The Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Early Delhi Sultanate |editor=[[Richard M. Eaton|Richard Eaton]]|title=Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0_xhdCScQkC&pg=PA61 |year=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03428-0 }}<br />
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