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1. ↑: قطب شاهیان; Urdu: قطب شاہی خاندان)
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed1. ↑Sherwani, Haroon Khan (1946). _The Bahmanis of the Deccan – An Objective Study_. Krishnavas International Printers, Hyderabad Deccan. p.386. OCLC3971780.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗3. ↑Islamic Culture vol. 46, p. 140. Islamic Culture Board, 1972
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed5. ↑Brian Spooner and William L. Hanaway, _Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order_, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 317.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed6. ↑Alam, Muzaffar (1998). "The Pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics". _Modern Asian Studies_. **32** (2): 317–349. doi:10.1017/s0026749x98002947. S2CID146630389. Ibrahim Qutb Shah encouraged the growth of Telugu and his successor Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah patronized and himself wrote poetry in Telugu and Dakhni. Abdullah Qutb Shah instituted a special office to prepare the royal edicts in Telugu (dabiri-ye foramina-i Hindavi). While administrative and revenue papers at local levels in the Qutb Shahi Sultanate were prepared largely in Telugu, the royal edicts were often bilingual. '06 The last Qutb Shahi Sultan, Abul Hasan Tana Shah, sometimes issued his orders only in Telugu, with a Persian summary given on the back of the farmans.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗7. ↑Sherwani, Haroon Khan (1946). _The Bahmanis of the Deccan – An Objective Study_. Krishnavas International Printers, Hyderabad Deccan. p.386. OCLC3971780.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗9. ↑Christoph Marcinkowski, _Shi'ite Identities: Community and Culture in Changing Social Contexts_, 169-170; "_The Qutb-Shahi kingdom could be considered 'highly Persianate' with a large number of Persian-speaking merchants, scholars, and artisans present at the royal capital._"
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed10. ↑Syed, Muzaffar Husain (2011). _Concise History of Islam_. Vij Books India Private Limited. p.258. ISBN978-9-382-57347-0. The Qutb Shahi dynasty was the ruling family of the sultanate of Golkonda in southern India. They were **Shia Muslims** and belonged to a **Turkmen tribe**.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed11. ↑Suleman Siddiq, Mohd. (2017). "The Da'irat-ul-Ma'arif: A Unique Language Institute of Hyderabad". _Languages and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad_. pp.203–216. doi:10.4324/9781315141664-12. ISBN978-1-315-14166-4.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed14. 1C.E. Bosworth, _The New Islamic Dynasties_, (Columbia University Press, 1996), 328.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed15. ↑Keelan Overton (2020). _Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400–1700_. Indiana University Press. p.82. ISBN9780253048943. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗16. 1Farooqui Salma Ahmed (2011). _A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century_. Pearson Education India. pp.177–179. ISBN9788131732021.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed17. 1Satish Chandra, _Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals_, Part II, (Har-Anand, 2009), 210.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed18. 1Richard M. Eaton (2005), A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives, Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 142-143
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed19. ↑Minorsky, V. (1955). "The Qara-qoyunlu and the Qutb-shāhs (Turkmenica, 10)". _Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London_. **17** (1). Cambridge University Press: 50–73. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00106342. JSTOR609229. S2CID162273460. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗22. 1George Michell, Mark Zebrowski, _Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates_, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 17.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed23. 1Masʻūd Ḥusain Khān, _Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah_, Volume 216, (Sahitya Akademi, 1996), 2.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed24. ↑Satish Chandra, _Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals_, Part II, (Har-Anand, 2009), 331.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed25. ↑Eaton, Richard M. (2008). "Papadu (Fl. 1695–1710)". _A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761_. Cambridge University press. pp.156–158.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗28. ↑Eaton, Richard Maxwell (2005). _A social history of the Deccan, 1300-1761: eight Indian lives_. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p.157. ISBN0-521-25484-1. OCLC58431679.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗32. 1Moreland, W.H. (1931). _Relation of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century_. Halyukt Society. pp.78, 89.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed33. ↑Marcinkowski, Christoph. "Persians and Shi'ites in Thailand: From the Ayutthaya Period to the Present". Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗36. 1Salma Ahmed Farooqui, _A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century_, (Dorling Kindersley Pvt. Ltd, 2011), 181.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed37. 1Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad Golconda Fort, Qutb Shahi Tombs, Charminar - UNESCO World Heritage Centre". _whc.unesco.org_. Archived from the original on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗43. 1Haroon Khan Sherwani (1974). _History of the Qutb Shāhī Dynasty_. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. p.655.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗44. ↑Annemarie Schimmel, _Classical Urdu Literature from the Beginning to Iqbāl_, (Otto Harrassowitz, 1975), pp. 141-152
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed46. ↑Sarma, Mukkamala Radhakrishna; Committee, Osmania University Dept of Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology Felicitation; History, Osmania University Dept of (2004). _Glimpses of our past--historical researches: festschrift in honour of Prof. Mukkamala Radhakrishna Sarma, former emeritus fellow_. Felicitation Committee, Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture, and Archaeology & Dept. of History, Osmania University. p.326.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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