sultanate · South Asia

Langah Sultanate

1445 CE – 1526 CE (approx.) · capital Multan

A sultanate of the Langah tribe that ruled Multan in the southern Punjab for some eighty years in the 15th and early 16th centuries.

Origins

Around 1445, as the Sayyid rulers of the Delhi Sultanate lost control of the Punjab, the people of Multan chose a local Sufi family leader as ruler. Shortly afterwards Rai Sahra, chief of the Langah tribe, took power and reigned as Sultan Qutb al-Din, founding a dynasty based at Multan.

Rule and society

Husain Shah Langah, the most important ruler, reigned for about three decades, repelled attacks from Bahlul Lodi of Delhi and expanded towards Sindh and the Indus frontier. Multan was a centre of Sufi shrines, notably those of Bahauddin Zakariya and Shah Rukn-e-Alam, and of trade between India and Afghanistan.

Decline and legacy

Shah Husain Arghun of the Arghun dynasty, ruling Sindh, besieged and captured Multan around 1526, ending Langah rule. Multan soon passed to the Mughal Empire and became the seat of a Mughal province.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

Lineage

Delhi Sultanate 1206 CE – 1526 CELangah Sultanate

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Langah Sultanate. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/langah-sultanate
MLA
“Langah Sultanate.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/langah-sultanate. Accessed .
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The Epoch Institute. “Langah Sultanate.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/langah-sultanate.
Harvard
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