


During his lifetime, victories in the south expanded the Mughal Empire to 4 million square kilometres, and he ruled over a population estimated to be over 158 million subjects. He was a notable expansionist during his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its great extent, ruling over nearly all of the Indian subcontinent. He was an accomplished military leader whose rule has been the subject of praise, though he has also been described as the most controversial ruler in Indian history.

Widely considered to be the last effective ruler of the Mughal Empire, Aurangzeb compiled the Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, and was among the few monarchs to have fully established Sharia law and Islamic economics throughout the Indian subcontinent. Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad ( Persian: محیالدین محمد) (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the sobriquet Aurangzeb ( Persian: اورنگزیب, lit.'Ornament of the Throne') or by his regnal title Alamgir (Persian: "Conqueror of the World"), was the sixth Mughal emperor, who ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years. Khuld Makani ( Persian: خلد مکانی, lit.'Dwelling in eternal paradise')
