Background
Badlishah, Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah was born on November 28, 1927 in Alor Star, Kedah, Malaysia.
Badlishah, Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah was born on November 28, 1927 in Alor Star, Kedah, Malaysia.
Graduate, Sultan Abdul Hamid College, Alor, 1949. Diploma social science public administration, Oxford University, England, 1955. D. Political Science (honorary), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
With District Office, then Treasury Alor State, since 1955. Raja muda of Kedah, 1949-1957. Regent, 1957-1958; sultan State of Kedah, since 1958.
Deputy king, then king Conference of Rulers, 1965-1975. Colonel-in-chief Royal Malay Regiment, 1975.
Son of Sultan Badlishah of Kadeh. Married Tunku Hajjah Bahiyah, March 1956. 3 children.