Despite their many wars, Sultan Muhammad Shah and his successors could not expand the sultanate very much: they just about managed to maintain the status quo.

After Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah's death in 1433, Narameikhla's successors repaid Bengal by occupying Ramu in 1437 and Chittagong in 1459.

Hasan Ali Shah thus become known as Aga Khan Mahallati, and the title of Aga Khan was inherited by his successors.

His two successors were Ibrahim ibn Tashfin and Ishaq ibn Ali, but their reigns were short.

The first four Caliphs: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib are commonly known by Sunnis, mainly, as the Khulafā ’ ur-Rāshideen (" rightly guided successors ") Caliphs.

* Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors

Sunnis consider Ali the fourth and final of the Rashidun ( rightly guided Caliphs ), while Shias regard Ali as the first Imam and consider him and his descendants the rightful successors to Muhammad, all of which are members of the Ahl al-Bayt, the household of Muhammad.

In the next year another firman bestowed upon him the title of khedive in lieu of that of vali, borne by Mehemet Ali and his immediate successors.

This was achieved by a radical decrease in mortality rates and concomitant growth of life expectancy by 10 – 15 years, which, of course, indicates that Muhammad Ali and his successors in fact achieved impressive success in the effective modernization of Egypt and that the actual quality of life of the majority of the Egyptian population significantly increased in the 19th century.

* Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors

The Nawab Saadet-Allah of Arcot ( 1710 – 1732 ) established his independence ; his successor Dost Ali ( 1732 – 1740 ) conquered and annexed Madura in 1736, and his successors were confirmed in their position as Nawabs of the Carnatic by the Nizam of Hyderabad after that potentate had established his power in southern India.

On 1 April 1882, Wolseley was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces, and, in August of that year, given command of the British forces in Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors to suppress the Urabi Revolt.

During his reign and that of his successors, Egypt and Sudan came to be administered as one political entity, with all ruling members of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty seeking to preserve and extend the " unity of the Nile Valley ".

** Egypt under Mehemet Ali and his successors: 1805 to 1882

Their successors, Ibrahim Adil Shah II ( 1580 – 1627 ), Mohammed Adil Shah ( 1627 – 1657 ) and Ali Adil Shah II ( 1657 – 1672 ), further adorned Bijapur with palaces, mosques, mausoleum and other structures, considered to be some of the finest examples of Deccan Sultanate and Indo-Islamic Architecture.

Aqa Ali Shah also had close ties with Rahmat Ali Shah's uncle as well as one of Rahmat Ali Shah's successors, Munawwar ‘ Alī Shāh ( d. 1884 ).

According to Mustali belief, the line of Imams ( descendents of Ali ibn Abi Talib and hereditary successors to Muhammad in his role of legitimate leader of the community of Muslim believers ) is as follows:

" ( Sura, Yusuf Ali ) </ br > Thy Lord is self-sufficient, full of Mercy: if it were God's will, God could destroy you, and in your place appoint whom God will as your successors, even as God raised you up from the posterity of other people.

The Shias claimed Ali Ibn Abu Talib and his descendents were the rightful successors of the prophet Muhammad.

Shias believe they are successors of Muhammad and consist of Muhammad, Fatimah, Ali, Hasan and Husayn ( known collectively as the Ahl al-Kisa, " people of the mantle ") and the imams.

This belief is what led to the split between the Shi ' a and Sunni, as the Shi ' a felt that the descendants of Ali are the rightful successors to Muhammad, while the Sunni felt that it was any who could take the role of Caliph by the will of God and protect Islam.

The Samson and her successors — Aide, a wooden paddle steamer of 112 gross tons ( 114 t ) built at Blackwall on the Thames and in use by 1855, Vulcan, an iron steam paddle tug of 140 tons ( 142 t ), also built at Blackwall and delivered to Ramsgate in 1858, and Fabia, which was in service in World War II — participated in many rescues alongside the local lifeboatmen, receiving several rewards from the RNLI and grateful foreign governments.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

Tacitus ' major historical works, including The Histories and Agricola's biography, were all written and published under Domitian's successors Nerva ( 96 – 98 ) and Trajan ( 98 – 117 ).

One of Demetrius ' successors, Menander I, brought the Indo-Greek Kingdom to its height between 165 – 130 BC, expanding the kingdom in India to even larger proportions than Demetrius.

The Hershey – Chase experiment, its predecessors, such as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, and successors served to unequivocally establish that hereditary information was carried by DNA.

Philip of Burgundy, 57th Bishop of Utrecht ( 1517 – 1524 ), through a family connection with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, secured a significant concession from Pope Leo X, granting internal autonomy in both church and temporal affairs for himself and his successors without interference from outside their jurisdictional region.

Pius XII issued 41 encyclicals during his pontificate – more than all his successors in the past 50 years taken together – along with many other writings and speeches.

In both cases the requisite condition was unattainable ; neither in the 16th nor in the 18th century has it been practicable to set bounds to the spirit of inquiry otherwise than by fire and sword, and Ganganelli's successors have been driven into assuming a position analogous to that of Popes Paul IV ( 1555 – 59 ) and Pius V ( 1566 – 72 ) in the age of the Reformation.

A meaningful starting point, however, is 1688 – 9 when James II fled England and the Parliament of England confirmed William and Mary as joint constitutional monarchs, enacting legislation that limited their authority and that of their successors: the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), the Mutiny Bill ( 1689 ), the Triennial Bill ( 1694 ), the Treason Act ( 1696 ) and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

* 2009 – Roland AT-900: Roland introduces the AT-900 and AT-900C, the next generation of Atelier organ consoles, successors to the AT-90S and AT-90SL.

John Dutton ’ s successors as governor, Robert Stringer ( 1661 – 1670 ) and Richard Coney ( 1671 – 1672 ), repeatedly warned the Company of unrest amongst the inhabitants, Coney complaining the inhabitants were drunks and ne ’ er-do-wells.

Neither an increase on duty on the locally produced arrack nor a duty on all firewood helped reduce the deforestation whilst attempts to reforest the island by governor John Roberts ( 1708 – 1711 ) were not followed up by his immediate successors.

One of his first acts concerning foreign policy was to call back Jacques Foccart ( 1913 – 1997 ), who had been de Gaulle's and his successors ' leading counsellor for African matters, called by journalist Stephen Smith the " father of all " networks " on the continent, at the time 1986 aged 72.

Variations of and successors to the basic TTL family, which has a typical gate propagation delay of 10ns and a power dissipation of 10 mW per gate, for a power – delay product ( PDP ) or switching energy of about 100 pJ, include:

The reigns of Harun al-Rashid ( 786 – 809 ) and his successors fostered an age of great intellectual achievement.

This is further confirmed by coins of the city of Laodicea in modern day Syria, that bear the legend, " Of Laodicea, a metropolis in Canaan "; these coins are dated to the reign of Antiochus IV ( 175 – 164 BC ) and his successors.

His successors, Olaf Tryggvason ( c. 995 – 1000 ), and Olaf Haraldsson ( St. Olav ) ( 1015 – 1028 ) resorted to forceful means to convert the Norwegian people.

His successors were Leonello ( 1407 – 1450 ) and Borso ( 1413 – 1471 ), who was elevated to Duke of Modena and Reggio by Emperor Frederick III in 1452 and in return received these duchies as imperial fiefs.

Psychiatrists are the successors of " soul doctors ", priests who dealt and deal with the spiritual conundrums, dilemmas, and vexations – the " problems in living " – that have troubled people forever.

* Swami Ramanuja established 74 Simhāsanādhipathis as successors in the Religious Hierarchy ( Guru Parampara ).