The Bahmanī were a Muslim dynasty of eighteen sultans that ruled from 748/1347 to 934/1528 in present-day North Karnataka, in the Deccan plateau region of India. In the 740s/1340s, in the wake of uprisings against Tughluq rule in the Deccan, two rival empires consolidated authority on opposite sides of the Krishna River: the Muslim Bahmanīs, who adopted the family name of the dynasty’s founder, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ḥasan Bahman Shāh (r. 748–59/1347–58), and the Hin…