Shakr-un-Nissa Begum

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum (Persian: شکرالنسا بیگم‎; died 1 January 1653) was a Mughal princess, the daughter of Emperor Akbar.

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum
BornFatehpur Sikri, Agra, Mughal Empire
Died1 January 1653
Akbarabad (present day Agra), Mughal Empire
Burial
Akbar's tomb, Sikandra, Agra
SpouseShahrukh Mirza
HouseTimurid
FatherAkbar
MotherBibi Daulat Shad

Early life

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum was born at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra to Akbar's wife,Bibi Daulat Shad. She had a younger full sister named Aram Banu Begum.[1]

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.[2]

Marriage

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.[3] His mother was Muhtarima Khanum, the daughter of Shah Muhammad Sultan Jagatai and Khadija Sultan Khanum, daughter of Ahmad Alaq.[4] The marriage took place on 2 September 1594 in the quarters of Empress Hamida Banu Begum.[5]

Shahrukh Mirza was also married to Shakr-un-Nissa's cousin, Kabuli Begum, the daughter of her uncle Mirza Muhammad Hakim.[6]

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.[7]

Death

Shakr-un-Nissa Begum died on 1 January 1653. She had started from Akbarabad towards Shahjahanabad, on purpose of meeting Shah Jahan. She was buried in her father's mausoleum, located at Sikandra.[8][9]

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Varma, Ramesh Chandra (1967). Foreign Policy of the Great Mughals, 1526 - 1727 A.D. Shiva Lal Agarwala. p. 49.
  4. Begum, Gulbadan (1902). The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama). Royal Asiatic Society. p. 267.
  5. Beveridge, Henry (1907). Akbarnama of Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak - Volume I. Asiatic Society, Calcuta. p. 990.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Kanbo, Muhammad Saleh. Amal e Saleh al-Mausoom Ba Shahjahan Nama (Persian) - Volume 3. p. 117.
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