Sayyid dynasty(1414–51), rulers of India’s Delhi sultanate as successors of the Tughluq dynasty until displaced by the Afghan Lodīs.
This family claimed to be sayyids or descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.
The first Sayyid ruler of Delhi was Khizr Khan (reigned 1414–21), who had been the governor of Punjab.
Khizr’s successor, Mubārak Shah, had some success, but, after the latter’s assassination in 1434, his two successors, Muḥammad Shah and ʿĀlam Shah, proved incapable.
In 1451 Bahlūl Lodī, already ruler of Punjab seized Delhi and inaugurated the Lodi, the last dynasty of the Delhi sultanate.