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The first of fourteen children born to Shah Jahan's second wife, Mumtaz Mahal. She died of smallpox at the age of 3. [89] Jahanara Begum Padshah Begum: Mumtaz Mahal: 23 March 1614 – 16 September 1681 Shah Jahan's favourite and most influential daughter.
Sep 11, 2024 · Shah Jahān (born January 5, 1592, Lahore [now in Pakistan]—died January 22, 1666, Agra [now in India]) was the Mughal emperor of India (1628–58) who built the Taj Mahal. He was the third son of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr and the Rajput princess Manmati. In 1612 he married Arjūmand Bānū Begum, niece of Jahāngīr’s wife Nūr Jahān ...
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- Shah Jahān fell ill in September 1657. His four sons—Dārā Shikōh, Murād Bakhsh, Shah Shujāʿ, and Aurangzeb—began to contest the throne in preparati...
Mar 9, 2019 · Qandahari Begum was first wife of Shah Jahan. She was Princess of Persia and youngest daughter of Prince Sultan Muzzafar Hussain Mirza of Safavid dynasty and married Shah jahan on 12 th December 1609.
Apr 16, 2024 · 3.2. (19) The fifth emperor of the Mughal dynasty in South Asia, Shah Jahan, married a lot of women in his lifetime. Initially, he was married to Akbarbadi Mahal and Kandahari Mahal, later in 1607 AD, he had been affianced with Arjumand Bano Begum.
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Mumtaz Mahal, (born c. 1593—died June 17, 1631, Burhanpur, India), wife of Shah Jahān, Mughal emperor of India (1628–58). Having died at a young age only a few years into her husband’s reign, her memory inspired the construction of the Taj Mahal, where she is entombed.
Born Arjumand Banu, she was a member of a family that came to command the inner court of the Mughal dynasty in the 17th century. Her family’s high status was secured when her aunt Mehr al-Nesāʾ married Shah Jahān’s father, Jahāngīr, in 1611 (and thereafter she was known as Nūr Jahān). Arjumand’s grandfather Mirzā Ghiyās Beg (known also as Iʿtimād al-Dawlah, “Pillar of the State”), who had entered the royal court during the reign of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605), was then appointed the grand vizier of the empire. Abū al-Ḥasan Āṣaf Khan, Arjumand’s father and Nūr Jahān’s brother, also attained a high rank within the court and later became grand vizier under Shah Jahān.
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Arjumand was betrothed to Prince Khurram (the pre-regnal name of Shah Jahān) in 1607, but it was not until 1612—the date chosen by the court astrologers—that they were permitted to marry. In the meantime, he had taken another wife, and Arjumand thus became his second wife. She bore 14 children during their marriage, seven of whom survived to adulthood. Their third son was Aurangzeb, the last great Mughal emperor (1658–1707).
Shah Jahān acceded the throne in 1628 and conferred on Arjumand the title of Mumtāz Maḥall (“Chosen One of the Palace”). Though she did not assert authority to the extent her aunt had done, she used her position to promote humanitarian programs for the needy. In 1631, though pregnant, she accompanied Shah Jahān on a military campaign in the Deccan....
As a young man, he was married to two wives known as Akbarabadi Mahal (d.1677 AD), and Kandahari Mahal (m.1609 AD). Beforehand however, in 1607 AD, Khurram had been betrothed to Arjumand Bano Begum, the grand daughter of a Persian noble, who was just 14 years old at the time.
As per the prediction of the fortune teller, Shah Jahan was born on 5thJanuary 1592, to Emperor Jahangir and his second wife, Jagat Gosaini (a Rajput princess). After naming him Khurram (the joyous one), his grandfather, Emperor Akbar took him away from his mother and handed him over to his Empress Ruqaiya Sultan Begum.
