Editing Muhammad Azam Shah (section)

==Accession==

In the third week of February 1707, in a bid to prevent a war of succession, Aurangzeb separated Azam and his younger half-brother, Kam Baksh, whom Azam particularly loathed. He sent Azam to Malwa and Kam Baksh to Bijapur. A few days before his death, he wrote farewell letters to Azam. The next morning, Azam who had tarried outside [[Ahmednagar]] instead of proceeding to Malwa, arrived at the imperial camp and conveyed his father's body for burial at his tomb at [[Daulatabad, Maharashtra|Daulatabad]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Eraly |first=Abraham |title=Emperors of the peacock throne : the saga of the great Mughals |year=2000 |publisher=Penguin books |location=New Delhi |isbn=9780141001432 |edition=[Rev. ed.]. |pages=510–513}}</ref> Azam Shah proclaimed himself Emperor and seized the throne. In the political struggles following the disputed succession, he and his son Prince Bidar Bakht were defeated and killed in the [[Battle of Jajau]] on 20 June 1707 against elder half-brother, [[Bahadur Shah I|Prince Muhammad Mu'azzam]], who succeeded their father to the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] throne.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/misc/mughal.html |title=Mughal dynasty}}</ref>  Azam Shah was killed by a musket shot, which is believed to have been fired by [[Isa Khan Munj|Isha Khan Main]], a ''zamindar'' of the [[Lakhi Jungle (jungle)|Lakhi Jangal]] in the [[Subah of Lahore|Lahore Subah]]. His grave along with that of his wife, lies in the [[dargah]] complex of Sufi saint, [[Zainuddin Shirazi|Sheikh Zainuddin]], at [[Khuldabad]] near [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]], which also houses the [[tomb of Aurangzeb]] to the west.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Heritage Sites – Ellora Caves – Khuldabad |url=http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_whs_ellora_khuldabad.asp |publisher=[[Archaeological Survey of India]] |access-date=15 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506105651/http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_whs_ellora_khuldabad.asp |archive-date=6 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>