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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Hussain Nizam Shah I
| title = [[Sultan]] of [[Ahmadnagar Sultanate|Ahmadnagar]]
| image = File:Indischer Maler um 1565 001.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| reign = 1553–1565
| religion = [[Islam]]
| coronation =
| predecessor = [[Burhan Nizam Shah I]]
| successor = [[Murtaza Nizam Shah I]]
| spouse =
Daulat Shah Begum [[Khunza Humayun Begum]]
| issue = [[Murtaza Nizam Shah I]] [[Chand Bibi]] [[Burhan Nizam Shah II]] Bibi Khadija Bibi Jamila Shah Qasim Shah Mansur Aqa Bibi
| royal house = Nizam Shahi Dynasty
| father = [[Burhan Nizam Shah I]]
| mother = Bibi Amina
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date = 1565
| death_place = Ahmednagar
}}

'''Hussain Nizam Shah I''' (1553–1565) was the preeminent ruler of the [[Ahmadnagar Sultanate]] and the leading figure of the coalition of the [[Deccan Sultanates]] during the [[Battle of Talikota]].<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |pages=118}}</ref> Notably, Hussain Nizam Shah was responsible for taking prisoner and beheading [[Aliya Rama Raya|Rama Raya]] of [[Vijayanagara Empire|Vijayanagara]] after the Battle of Talikota.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rao|first=P. Raghunadha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BH0eAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&hl=en|title=History of Modern Andhra|date=1983|publisher=Sterling Publishers|pages=16|language=en}}</ref>

==Family==
===Wives===
*Daulat Shah Begum, daughter of [[Darya Imad Shah]];<ref>Radhey Shyam, ''The Kingdom of Ahmadnagar'' (1966), p. 110</ref>
*Khunza Humayun, a great-great-granddaughter of [[Jahan Shah|Sultan Jahan Shah]] of the [[Qara Qoyunlu]];<ref>Sayyid Ahmad-Ullah Qadri, ''Memoirs of Chand Bibi: The Princess of Ahmadnagar'' (1939), p. 48</ref>

===Issue===
'''By Khunza Humayun:'''
*[[Murtaza Nizam Shah I]], Sultan of Ahmednagar;
*[[Burhan Nizam Shah II]], Sultan of Ahmednagar;
*[[Chand Bibi]], married [[Ali Adil Shah I|Sultan Ali Adil Shah I]] of [[Bijapur Sultanate|Bijapur]]. Later became regent of Bijapur and Ahmednagar successively;
*Bibi Khadija, married Jamal-ud-din Hansan Auju;

'''By Surya:'''
*Bibi Jamila, married [[Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali|Sultan Ibrahim Qutb Shah]] of [[Golconda Sultanate|Golconda]];
*Shah Qasim;
*Shah Mansur;
*Aqa Bibi, married Mir Abdul Wahhab, son of Sayyid Abdul Azum;

<ref>{{harvtxt|Shyam|1966|p=150}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Deccan Sultanates]]
*[[Ahmadnagar Sultanate]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Sultans]]
[[Category:16th-century Indian monarchs]]
[[Category:Indian Muslims]]
[[Category:People from Gujarat]]
[[Category:Gujarati people]]

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