# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muhammad-shah
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:26:41.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/muhammad-shah"
name: "Muhammad Shah"
slug: "muhammad-shah"
description: "The Mughal emperor who presided over empire's collapse while throwing legendary parties. Muhammad Shah took the throne at 18 as a puppet of warlords, outlasted them through assassination and poison, then watched Nader Shah sack Delhi in 1739 and cart off the Peacock Throne — the humiliation that made clear the Mughals were done."
tagline: "12th Mughal Emperor from 1719 to 1748"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nidha_Mal_Jharokha_portrait_of_Muhammad_Shah_holding_an_emerald_and_the_mouthpiece_of_a_huqqa_ca._1730_The_San_Diego_Museum_of_Art.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1702-08-17"
deathDate: "1748-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.175
  historical:           22.17088266666667
  currentAttention:     9.76923076923077
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Roshan Akhtar in 1702, he became emperor in 1719 only because the Sayyid Brothers of Barha needed a pliable teenager. By 1722 he'd orchestrated both their deaths — one murdered at Fatehpur Sikri, the other captured in battle and fatally poisoned — with help from Nizam-ul-Mulk. Free of his handlers, he turned the court into a center for music and art, earning the nickname "Rangila" (the colorful) and taking the pen-name Sadrang. The bloom didn't last. In 1739 Nader Shah's Persian army stormed into India, sacked Delhi, and left the capital stripped and the empire exposed as a shell. Muhammad Shah ruled until 1748, but the shock of that invasion — which horrified even the British watching from the margins — marked the point of no return.