Alam was the son of Musa ibn Haji Amir Khan.[3] According to the Rajmala, his grandfather, Haji Amir Khan, was an army commander for Sultan Rukunuddin Barbak Shah and governed parts of Tripura.[4] Majlis Alam was a common rank and title given by the Sultanate to a number of people and so the minister's real name is unknown.[5]
Life
Alam was known to have established many mosques throughout Sylhet.[6] In 1472, he erected a replica of Pandua's Adina Mosque in Chowkidekhi (Chowkidighi Mahalla).[7] This mosque would be destroyed by a later ruler of Sylhet, Isfandiyar Khan Beg, in the 1660s.[8] The inscriptions here refers to himself as the Great Majlis, the Minister, the Messenger towards goodness (Arabic: مجلس العظم المعظم الدستور الساعي في الخيرات والمبرات المجلس الأعلى, romanized: Majlis al-ʿAzam al-Muʿazzam al-Dastūr, al-Sāʿi fil-Khayrāt wal-Mubarrāt al-Majlis al-Aʿlā).[9] In 1476, Alam and his father also constructed the Goyghor Mosque in present-day Moulvibazar.[10] He may have also constructed a small mosque in Choti Dargah in Hazrat Pandua in 1479 as the builder of that mosque goes by "Majlis al-Majālis Majlis Aʿlā".[9]
^Hussain, Akmal (16 December 2014). গয়ঘর খোজার মসজিদ. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Moulvibazar. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
^Ahmed, A.B.M. Shamsuddin (1999). "Muslim Administion in Sylhet 1303-1765". In Ahmed, Sharif Uddin (ed.). Sylhet: History and Heritage. Bangladesh Itihas Samiti. pp. 337, 341. ISBN984-31-0478-1.
^Rahman, Fazlur (1991). Sileter Mati, Sileter Manush (in Bengali). Sylhet District: M A Sattar.
