No Muslim community, mosque or endowment is attested in Bengal or Bihar for 1200 in any source we opened.
Muslim traders touch Chittagong and the delta ports (general knowledge); the first Muslim rulers are Bakhtiyar's men after 1202 to 1205; the Sufi tradition of Shah Jalal at Sylhet (1303 on later accounts) and of the Rampal and Mahasthan shrines is later or undated. English Wikipedia's Sonargaon page puts the first Muslim settlers in the delta about 1281.
Who holds it
- Name
- not named
- Title
- Merchants and wandering holy men; no endowment
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
How things stand that morning
Visitors only; no resident community is attested.
Where the sources disagree
- The brief asks for the early Muslim presence "where attested". We find none for 1200.
Evidence: Silence of the sources opened.
On the map: A small disc for the house and its home villages; the granted villages lay scattered.
Primary sources for Senas of Bengal
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- The Nasirean Generations (a general history of the Muslim dynasties), Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (completed 1260 at Delhi). The fullest narrative of the Ghurid conquest of northern India. Read online
- The Nasirid Generations: a General History of the Muslim Dynasties, Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (1259 to 1260, at Delhi). The Ghurid court's own history, by a man born in 1193 whose family served the sultans of Ghur and Ghazna. Read online
- Inscriptions of Bengal, vol. 3, Various (the Sena kings' chanceries), edited by N. G. Majumdar (copper plates of the 10th to early 13th centuries; edited 1929). The one-volume edition of the Sena copper plates, the main documentary evidence for Bengal around 1200. Read online
- Epigraphia Indica: inscriptions of the Chandelas, Paramaras, Gahadavalas, Chaulukyas, Senas and Eastern Gangas, Various (edited for the Archaeological Survey of India by J. Burgess, E. Hultzsch, F. Kielhorn, Sten Konow, F. W. Thomas and successors) (inscriptions of the 1180s to 1210s; the series ran from 1892). The main record series for the Hindu kingdoms of northern India around 1200. Read online
- The Song of Govinda, Jayadeva (late 12th century, by tradition at the court of Lakshmanasena of Bengal). A literary witness, not a chronicle. Read online
- The History of India as Told by its Own Historians: the Muhammadan Period, vol. 2, Various (Ibn al-Athir, Hasan Nizami, Awfi, Juzjani and others), edited by H. M. Elliot and John Dowson (the sources date from the 1190s to the 14th century; the collection was published in 1869). A one-volume anthology of the Arabic and Persian accounts of the Ghurid conquest. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.