Firoz Minar, the ASI signboard said, was ‘probably constructed’ by Saifuddin Firoz, an Abyssinian who became the Sultan of Bengal in 1486 by killing Barbak Shah, who, as I was to find out later, was also an Abyssinian and the founder of the Habshi Dynasty. Habshi was derived from Habbash, the Arabic word for Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and later adopted in the subcontinent as the generic term for Africans.
Origin Of word Habshi
