Editing Multan (section)

====Tughluq dynasty====
[[File:Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam Multan.jpg|thumb|Multan's [[Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam]] is considered to be the earliest Tughluq era monument.<ref name=yale/>]]
In the 1320s Multan was conquered by [[Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq]], he was made the governor of Multan and South Punjab, Sindh regions and of Depalpur.<ref name="Amjad 1989"/> He was the founder of the Turkic [[Tughluq dynasty]], the third dynasty of the [[Delhi Sultanate]]. Earlier he spent his time in Multan and fought 28 battles against Mongols from there and saved the regions from advances of Mongols. He wrote in the jamia Masjid of Multan that he had fought 28 battles against Mongols and had survived, people gave him the title Ghazi ul Mulk.<ref name="Amjad 1989"/>

Ghiyath al din's son Muhammad bin Tughlaq was born in Multan. After Ghiyath's death he became the Sultan and ascended the throne in Delhi.<ref name="Amjad 1989"/> The countryside around Multan was recorded to have been devastated by excessively high taxes imposed during the reign of Ghiyath's son, [[Muhammad Tughluq]].<ref name="Habib">{{cite book|last1=Habib|first1=Irfan|title=Economic History of Medieval India, 1200–1500|date=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=9788131727911}}</ref> In 1328, the Governor of Multan, Kishlu Khan, rose in rebellion against Muhammad Tughluq, but was quickly defeated.<ref name="Suvorova">{{cite book|last1=Suvorova|first1=Anna|title=Muslim Saints of South Asia: The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries|date=2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134370054}}</ref>

The [[Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam]] was completed during the Tughluq era, and is considered to be the first Tughluq monument.<ref name="yale">{{cite book|last1=Bloom|first1=Jonathan|title=The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800|date=1995|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300064650|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mhIgewDtNkC&q=rukn+alam|access-date=9 September 2017}}</ref> The shrine is believed to have been originally built to be the tomb of Ghiyath ad-Din,<ref name="khan">{{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=Hassan Ali|title=Constructing Islam on the Indus: The Material History of the Suhrawardi Sufi Order, 1200–1500 AD|date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781316827222}}</ref> but was later donated to the descendants of [[Rukn-e-Alam]] after Ghiyath became Emperor of Delhi.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bunce|first1=Fredrick W.|title=Islamic Tombs in India: The Iconography and Genesis of Their Design|date=2004|publisher=D.K. Printworld|isbn=9788124602454}}</ref>

The renowned Arab explorer [[Ibn Battuta]] visited Multan in the 1300s during the reign of Muhammad Tughluq, and noted that Multan was a trading centre for horses imported from as far away as the [[Eurasian Steppe|Russian Steppe]].<ref name="Habib"/> Multan had also been noted to be a centre for slave-trade, though slavery was banned in the late 1300s by Muhammad Tughluq's son, [[Firuz Shah Tughlaq]].<ref name="Habib"/>