Question
How did Muslim rulers portray themselves?

Answer

  1. Muslim Sultans and Padshahs did not claim to be incarnations of God but Persian court chronicles described the Sultan as the "Shadow of God".
  2. An inscription in the Quwwatal-Islam mosque explained that God chose Alauddin as a king as he had the qualities of Moses and Solomon, the greatest lawgivers of the past.
  3. The greatest lawgiver and architect was God himself. He created the world out of chaos and introduced order and symmetry.

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