{{Short description|Sultan of Sindh from 1461 to 1508}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Jam Nizamuddin II <br/><small>{{lang|sd|ڄام نظام الدين ثاني}}</small> | title = | image = Tomb of Sultan Jam Nizamuddin.jpg | caption = Jam Nizamuddin II's tomb at [[Makli Necropolis]] | succession = 15th [[List of monarchs of Sindh|Sultan of Sindh]] | reign = 28 December 1461 – 1508 | full name = Jam Nizamuddin Shah Sani bin Jam Sadruddin Shah Sani | spouse = Madina Machhari | spouse-type = Wife | issue = [[Jam Feroz II]] | predecessor = [[Jam Sanjar]] | successor = [[Jam Feroz II]] | dynasty = [[Samma dynasty]] | father = [[Jam Sanjar]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1440|08|08|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Thatta|Samanagar]], [[Sindh]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1509|||1440|08|08|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Thatta|Samanagar]], [[Sindh]] | burial_place = [[Makli Hill]], [[Pakistan]] | religion = [[Islam]] }} [[File:Tomb of Jam Nizam al-Din, Makli.JPG|thumb|Tomb of Jam Nizamuddin, Makli necropolis<ref name="TJ">{{cite book |last1=Ephrat |first1=Daphna |last2=Wolper |first2=Ethel Sara |last3=Pinto |first3=Paulo G. |title=Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes: Emplacements of Spiritual Power across Time and Place |date=7 December 2020 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-44427-0 |page=276 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AsOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA276 |language=en}}</ref>]]
'''Jám Nizámuddín II''' ({{langx|sd|ڄام نظام الدين ثاني}}; 8 August 1440 – 1509), also known as '''Jam Nizam al-Din''' or '''Jám Nindó''' ({{langx|sd|ڄام نندو|links=no}}), was the 15th [[Sultans of Sindh|Sultan of Sindh]] from the [[Samma dynasty]], reigning between 1461 and 1508 CE. His capital was [[Thatta]] in modern-day southern [[Pakistan]]. After his death, his son [[Jám Feróz]]udin lost the Sultanate in 1524 to an invading army of [[Shah Beg Arghun]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-04-11 |title=Grave Tales |url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/04/11/stories/2004041100590800.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040907145359/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/04/11/stories/2004041100590800.htm |archive-date=2004-09-07 |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=2009-03-12}}</ref> who had been thrown out of Kandahar by [[Babur]].
== Tomb == Nizamuddin's grave is located on [[Makli Hill]] and part of the world heritage site of Historical Monuments at Makli.<ref>[https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/143 Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta] UNESCO Retrieved 14 June 2014</ref> The tomb is an impressive stone structure with fine ornamental carving similar to the 15th-century Gujrat style.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dawn: The necropolis of Sindh by Omar Mukhtar Khan |url=http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/011111/dmag10.htm |url-status=dead |accessdate=2009-03-12 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006011315/http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/011111/dmag10.htm |archivedate=October 6, 2008}}</ref> It has been restored but suffers from cracks and wall distortions caused by rough weathering and erosion of the slope on which it stands.<ref>''The Tomb of Jam Nizam al-Din, documentation and condition survey''. Heritage Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan. 2011.</ref>
Cousens wrote in ''The Antiquities of Sind'':<ref>Henry Cousens, The Antiquities of Sind, Archaeological Survey of India 46, Imperial Series (Calcutta, 1929, rptd. Karachi, 1975).</ref>
{{blockquote|His tomb is in the necropolis on Makli Hill. It is square in the plan but the dome was never constructed, work stopped when the walls reached the [[springing level|springing line]]. On the exterior of the building there are twelve bands of decoration running around the building from top to bottom comprising diamonds, lotuses, Quranic inscriptions, and geometric patterns. There are two unusual features: the mihrab in the interior and the corresponding balcony on the exterior. This type of balcony recalls those in Gujarat therefore it is possible that craftsmen from Gujarat were responsible for this tomb. This is a close view of a section of the wall, showing the richly carved balcony and the bands of decorative carving along the wall.}}
==See also== * [[Samma (tribe)]]
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{source attribution|''History of Sind – translated from Persian books'' by Mirza Kalichbeg Fredunbeg (1853–1929), published in [[Karachi]] in 1902}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} *[https://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2009/07/090723_pics_makli_nandoo_zs مکلی کے شہرِ خموشاں میں جام نندو کا مقبرہ]
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