Editing Muhammad bin Tughluq (section)

== Ascension ==
[[File:Muhammad Bin Tughlaq 1.jpg|thumb|Billon Tanka of Muhammad bin Tughlaq]]
Three days after the death of his father [[Ghiyath al-Din Tughlaq|Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq]], Muhammad bin Tughlaq ascended the throne of [[Tughlaq dynasty]] of [[Delhi]] on 4 February 1325.<ref name="r529">{{cite web | title= The Delhi Sultanate| url=https://ia601403.us.archive.org/19/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.118006/2015.118006.The-Delhi-Sultanate_text.pdf | publisher = Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | author = R. C. Majumdar | date = 1960 | access-date=26 February 2025 | page = 61}}</ref> In his reign, he conquered [[Warangal]] (in present-day [[Telangana]], India), Ma'abar ([[Kayalpatnam]]) and [[Madurai]] ([[Tamil Nadu]], India), and areas up to the modern day southern tip of the Indian state of [[Karnataka]]. In the conquered territories, Tughluq created a new set of revenue officials to assess the financial aspects of the area. Their accounts helped the audit in the office of the ''[[vizier|wazir]]''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Medieval India: From Sultanate to the Mughals|last=Chandra|first=Satish|publisher=Har-Anand Publications|year=1997|isbn=978-8124105221|location=New Delhi, India|pages=101–102}}</ref>

Muhammad bin Tughluq was also known for his tolerance for other religions.  Several historians mention that the Sultan honored the Jain monk Jinaprabha Suri during the year 1328.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Majumdar|first=Ramesh Chandra, Majumdar A.K, Achut Dattatrya Pusalker, Dilip Kumar Ghose, Vishvanath Govind Dighe|title=The History and Culture of the Indian People: The Delhi Sultanate|edition=2nd|publisher=Bharativa Vidya Bhavan|year=1960|pages=86}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Chandramouli|first=Anuja|title=Muhammad bin Tughlaq: Tale of a Tyrant|year=2019 |publisher=Penguin eBury Press|isbn=978-0143446644}}</ref> Peter Jackson mentions that Muhammad was the only Sultan who participated in Hindu festivities.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Peter|title=The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)|date=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521404770|page=293}}</ref>