Career
Mohammed’s reign of thirty years witnessed some momentous historical events. Bijapur became partner with the Mughals in the extinction of Ahmednagar. Mohammed maintained friendly relations with Shah Jahan and made the peace treaty of 1636, after the extinction of Ahmednagar.
And by a farman of Shah Jahan he got assurances for the security of the independence of Bijapur from the Mughal aggression.
Due to his good relations, Shah Jahan formally recognized Muhammad’s sovereignty and bestowed on him the title of Shah in 1648, the only ruler of Bijapur to receive such recognition from the Mughals. The Treaty of 1636, with the Mughals sealed the expansion of Bijapur in the north.
So Mohammed Adil Shah extended his dominations westwards into Konkan, Pune, Dhabul (present Mumbai), southwards into Mysore, and eastwards into Karnataka, present south Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. His kingdom yielded an annual revenue of seven crore eighty four lakh rupees, besides five and half crores of tributes were vassal rulers and zamindars.
Cultural activities like poetry, painting and architecture also received a great impetus.
Diffusion of general education and religious teachings were one of his chief concerns, and he did his utmost to improve the socio-economic and educational standards of the people. lieutenant is the greatest structural triumphs of Indo-Perso-Ottoman architecture of Adil Shahi period. Mohammed was the first ruler of Adil Shahi dynasty to make a departure from the injunctions against figure and portraint painting that was scrupulously adhered to till his father’s reign.
He introduced fresco paintings and portraits, the examples of which are the walls of Asar Mahal, pavilion at Kumatgi and Sat Manzil.
Mohammed failed to check the rise of Marathas to independence. Hazrath Hashimpeer arrived in Bijapur at the rule of Ibrahim Adil Shah World War II Hazrath Hashimpeer influenced the rulers of Bijapur to give up their un-Islamic and heretic practices.
Gol Gumbaz, located near the shrine of Hazrath Hashimpeer, owes its completion to the 10 years of life that Hazrath Hashimpeer granted to his disciple Adil Shah. The Gol Gumbaz dome is the second largest in the world, 44 m (124 ft) in diameter.
The Gol Gumbaz complex includes a mosque, a Naqqar Khana (a hall for the trumpeters, now it is used as museum) and the ruins of guest houses.