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Jahāngīr

(4,204 words)

Author(s): Balabanlilar, Lisa
Salīm Muḥammad Nūr al-Dīn Jahāngīr (b. 17 Rabīʿ I 977/30 August 1569, d. 27 Ṣafar 1037/29 October 1627), posthumously known, according to the Mughal dynastic tradition, as Janāt Makānī (whose place is in heaven), was the fourth emperor in the Tīmūrid-Mughal line, established in India in 932/1526 by the Tīmūrid-Chaghatay prince Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (r. 932–7/1526–30). Although Jahāngīr’s reign began and ended in princely rebellion, the period of his rule was one of relative peace and stability. Unlike the reign of hi…
Date: 2021-07-19

Gulbadan Begam

(1,958 words)

Author(s): Balabanlilar, Lisa
Gulbadan Begam (929–1011/1523–1603), author of an important memoir of the first two Mughal emperors, was the youngest daughter of Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (888–936/1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and direct descendant of the Mongol rulers Chingīz Khān (c. 557–624/1162–1227) and Tīmūr (Tamerlane, 736–807/1336–1405). In middle age, at the request of her nephew, the Mughal emperor Akbar (963–1014/1506–1605), Gulbadan composed a memoir, the Humāyūn-nāma, describing the lives of her father and her half-brother Humāyūn (r. 936–47/1530–40 and 962–3/155…
Date: 2021-07-19