Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the sixth ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.

He selected a site about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of then Hyderabad, what is today Saroornagar.

The construction of this fort was abandoned by his wife Hayat Bakshi Begum who considered his sudden death in 1626 as a bad omen.

[3] The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is carrying out the conservation effort on the sprawling necropolis in collaboration with Department of Archaeology and Museums, Telangana.

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