Region: South Asia · Coordinates: 28.652, 77.231 · 16 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 1325 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | Translator's chronology: In Rabi I of 725 AH (February–March 1325), Muhammad ascends the throne |
| AD 1327 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | The author's criticism: the sultan expelled all the inhabitants of Delhi and resettled them, one of the heaviest accusations |
| AD 1327 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | Translator's chronology: Chaghatai Khan Tarmashirin invades India and reaches the gates of Delhi; Muhammad buys peace, but because of this fear he is confined to Delhi for three years |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | From Masud Abad, after a night beside the village of Palam, the next day they arrive at Delhi, India's capital, which is introduced as the greatest city of the Eastern Islamic world, with walls unmatched in the world |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | In Delhi, with the sultan absent, the party passes in turn through the first, second and third gates of the palace |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | Hospitality at the palace of the sultan's mother, Al-Makhdum Jahan ('Mistress of the World'). The author notes she was one of the most virtuous women and founded many monasteries |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | A month and a half after arriving in Delhi, an infant daughter (probably the daughter born earlier, mentioned on p.30) dies. He describes the funeral rites in detail |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | During his stay in Delhi, the sultan orders several villages yielding 5,000 dinars a year to be given to him. The vizier and council members also send gifts |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | At the festival ending the fast (1 Shawwal), held while the sultan is absent, he watches a procession of preachers riding elephants. The sultan has not yet returned to Delhi |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | Two days after the sultan's arrival, on Friday, the foreign party goes to the gate of the great hall, has an audience with the sultan, and receives favors and offices |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | The author is appointed judge (qadi) of Delhi. Soon after, in the audience hall, the sultan intends to give a second gift of silver, but payment is delayed |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | He joins the sultan's hunting procession without delay. During the hunt, the sultan asks whether the Egyptian sultan also rides camels; he tells of the Mahri camel and ends up offering a camel |
| AD 1334 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | The sultan is delighted to receive one camel, and the author offers two more with sweets; the exchange began from the question during the hunt about whether the Egyptian king rides camels |
| AD 1340 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | Every year on 9 January the sultan leaves Delhi to strike the rebels of the Mabar province; the author had already been ordered to remain in Delhi |
| AD 1340 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | The author's visit to Shaykh Shihab al-Din (son of al-Jam'), a cave-dweller outside Delhi, angers the sultan, and he is nearly punished; the author writes that God saved him tradition |
| AD 1341 | Ibn Battuta, Travels | In India and Sind a drought hits: a mann of wheat becomes six gold coins, and the sultan orders grain distributed. The translator's chronology notes that Delhi was in a great famine |