# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alauddin-khalji
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:26:39.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alauddin-khalji"
name: "Alauddin Khalji"
slug: "alauddin-khalji"
description: "He killed his predecessor to seize the throne, then spent two decades beating back Mongol armies at the gates of Delhi while carving through kingdoms across the subcontinent. Alauddin Khalji turned the Delhi Sultanate into an empire through calculated violence and relentless expansion."
tagline: "13th Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate and 2nd from the Khalji dynasty (1266-1316)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Execution_of_Jalal-al-Din_Firuzshah_II_(r1290-96)%2C_Jami_al-Tawarikh_(Alauddin_Khalji_detail).jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1266"
deathDate: "1316-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.70450666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Ali Gurshasp around 1266, Alauddin was nephew and son-in-law to Sultan Jalaluddin, who handed him ceremonial duties before granting him governorships after successful campaigns. In 1296 he raided Devagiri, used the plunder to fund a coup, and murdered Jalaluddin to take the throne. Over the next decade he repelled Mongol invasions at Jaran-Manjur, Sivistan, Kili, Delhi, and Amroha, culminating in a rout near the Ravi in 1306 that sent his generals into Mongol Afghanistan. His armies swallowed Gujarat, Jaisalmer, Ranthambore, Chittor, Malwa, Siwana, and Jalore, erasing the Paramaras, Vaghelas, and Chahamana dynasties; his slave-general Malik Kafur pushed south of the Vindhyas, forcing the Yadava, Kakatiya, and Hoysala kings into tributary submission and looting the Pandya kingdom. Illness overtook him in his final years, leaving administration to Kafur, who tried installing Alauddin's son as a puppet after his death on 4 January 1316—until another son, Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah, seized power for himself.