Ali Adil Shah I

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Ali Adil Shah I
Sultan
5th Sultan of Bijapur
Reign	1558 – 17 August 1579
Predecessor	Ibrahim Adil Shah I
Successor	Ibrahim Adil Shah II
Died	17 August 1579[1] Bijapur
Burial	Ali Ka Rouza
Spouse	Chand Bibi
Issue	Ibrahim Adil Shah II the adopted son.
Names Abul Muzaffar Ali Adil Shah
House	House of Ali
Dynasty	Adil Shahi Empire
Father	Ibrahim Adil Shah I
Mother	Daughter of Asad Khan Lari (Khusrow)
Religion	Shia Islam

Ali Adil Shah I (Persian: علی عادل شاه; 1558–1579) was the fifth Sultan of Bijapur Sultanate.

On the day of his coronation Ali abandoned the Sunni practices and reintroduced the Shi’ah Khutbah and other practices. The Persian doctors of religion were granted full freedom to preach the Shi’ah doctrine and were paid by the State for their missionary activities.

The new Sultan restored back to power the Afāqis while relegating the Deccanis to a position of insignificance. He subverted all the dogmatic experiments which his father had practiced.