Quli Qutb Shah, a Turkmen from Hamadan,…

Quli Qutb Shah, a Turkmen from Hamadan, had migrated to Delhi with some of his relatives and friends in the beginning of the sixteenth century, later migrating south to the Deccan and serving the Bahmani sultan.

After the disintegration of the Bahmani Sultanate into the five Deccan sultanates, he had declared independence in 1512 and taken the title Qutb Shah, establishing the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda.