Shakr-un-Nissa Begum

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum
Shahzadi of Mughal Empire
BornFatehpur Sikri, Agra, Mughal Empire
Died1 January 1653
Akbarabad (present day Agra), Mughal Empire
Burial
Akbar's tomb, Sikandra, Agra
Spouse
Shahrukh Mirza
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(m. 1594; d. 1607)​
HouseTimurid
FatherAkbar
MotherBibi Daulat Shad
ReligionSunni Islam

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum, also Shakr al-Nisa Begum[1] (died 1 January 1653) was a Mughal princess, the daughter of Emperor Akbar.

Early life

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum was born at Fatehpur Sikri, to Akbar and Bibi Daulat Shad. She had a younger full sister named Aram Banu Begum.[2]

Shakr-un-Nissa was brought up in Akbar's care and turned out to be very well, good-natured, and innately compassionate towards all people. Jahangir had a constant love for her.[3]

Marriage

Mirza Shah Rukh (d. 1607-8) ruler of Badakhshan. Married Shakr-un-Nissa Begum, and became ruler of Malwa after fleeing to the Mughal Empire.[4]

In 1594, Akbar arranged her marriage with Shahrukh Mirza. He was the son of Ibrahim Mirza, the son of Sulaiman Mirza of Badakshan and Haram Begum.[5] His mother was Muhtarima Khanum, the daughter of Shah Muhammad Sultan Jagatai (grandson of Mahmud Khan) and Khadija Sultan Khanum (daughter of Ahmad Alaq).[6] The marriage took place on 2 September 1594 in the quarters of Empress Hamida Banu Begum.[7]

Shahrukh Mirza was also married to Shakr-un-Nissa's cousin, Kabuli Begum, the daughter of her uncle Mirza Muhammad Hakim.[8]

Shakr-un-Nissa became a widow, after Shahrukh Mirza's death in 1607. He died leaving four sons, Hasan Mirza and Husayn Mirza, who were twins, Sultan Mirza, and Badi-uz-Zaman Mirza, and three daughters.[9]

After the death of Akbar in the year 1605, she exercised her influence over her brother Jahangir and aided her stepmothers Mariam-uz-Zamani and Salima Sultan Begum to secure a pardon for the Khusrau Mirza, the eldest son of Jahangir.[10]

Death

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum died on 1 January 1653. She had started from Akbarabad towards Shahjahanabad. She was buried in her father's mausoleum, located at Sikandra.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Portrait of Mirza Shah Rukh". www.rct.uk.
  2. ^ Beale, Thomas William; Keene, Henry George (1894). An Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the Late Thomas William Beale. W.H. Allen. p. 107.
  3. ^ Jahangir, Emperor; Rogers, Alexander; Beveridge, Henry (1909). The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri; or, Memoirs of Jahangir. Translated by Alexander Rogers. Edited by Henry Beveridge. London Royal Asiatic Society. pp. 36.
  4. ^ "Portrait of Mirza Shah Rukh". www.rct.uk.
  5. ^ Varma, Ramesh Chandra (1967). Foreign Policy of the Great Mughals, 1526 - 1727 A.D. Shiva Lal Agarwala. p. 49.
  6. ^ Begum, Gulbadan (1902). The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama). Royal Asiatic Society. pp. 247, 267.
  7. ^ Beveridge, Henry (1907). Akbarnama of Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak - Volume I. Asiatic Society, Calcuta. p. 990.
  8. ^ Awangābādī, Shāhnavāz Khān; Prasad, Baini; Shāhnavāz, 'Abd al-Hayy ibn (1979). The Maāthir-ul-umarā: Being biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D. Janaki Prakashan. p. 781.
  9. ^ Jahangir, Emperor; Thackston, Wheeler McIntosh (1999). The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Washington, D. C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 303–4. ISBN 978-0-19-512718-8.
  10. ^ Xavier, Jesuit (1606). "Missoes Jesuitas Na India". British Library London, MS 9854: 44. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ Khan, Inayat; Begley, Wayne Edison (1990). The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: an abridged history of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian: the nineteenth-century manuscript translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, add. 30,777). Oxford University Press. p. 489.
  12. ^ Kanbo, Muhammad Saleh. Amal e Saleh al-Mausoom Ba Shahjahan Nama (Persian) - Volume 3. p. 117.