title: Padishah (disambiguation)
text: # Padishah (disambiguation)
  
  Padishah is a title of nobility roughly meaning 'emperor' in Persian languages, primarily used for the Sultan of the Turkish Empire.
  
  Padshah, Padshah, Badshah or Padişah may also refer to:
  
  ## Imperial/royal ruler styles
  
  * Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, also referred to as the Padishah
  * Padshah-i Hind, the main title of the 'Great Mughal', paramount ruler of Hindustan (India)
  * Padishah Bahadur, meaning 'a rank above Padshah'
  * Padshah-e Awadh, assumed by the former Nawabs of Awadh
  
  ## Fictional rulers
  
  * Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe, in Frank Herbert's Dune novels
  * The ruler of the Empire of Kelesh in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Padshah (Zabul), an Afghan appointed to Afghanistan's First Constitutional Loya Jirga, see Constitutional Loya Jirga
  * Padishah Khatun (1256-1295), Mongol poet and empress
  