1 Tanka - Ghiyath al-Din A'zam

Ghiyath al-Din A'zam Shah ruled Bengal from 1390 to 1410 and is remembered as one of the sultanate's more culturally ambitious rulers — he corresponded with the Persian poet Hafiz of Shiraz, who addressed at least one ghazal to him by name. His reign marked a period of relative stability after the fractious successions that had plagued the sultanate through the 1380s, and silver coinage struck in his name circulated across a Bengal economy heavily oriented toward the textile trade with the wider Islamic world.