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Akbar
جلال الدين أكبر ar اکبر کبیر fa
The third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605
- Child of Humayun and Hamida Banu Begum
- Married to Mariam-uz-Zamani Sahi Begum, Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, Salima Sultan Begum
- Dated 15 October 1542 CE – 15 October 1605 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 11 February 1556 CE – 25 October 1605 CE Mughal emperor Number 3 in the sequence Succeeded Humayun · Succeeded by Jahangir I
Family
The family of Akbar
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 15
Family 15
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Hamida Banu Begum Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
- child of (father) Humayun second Mughal emperor from 1530 to 1540 and 1555 to 1556
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of the house Mughal dynasty Indian Turco-Mongol dynasty - parent of (child) Aram Banu Begum Mughal princess
- parent of (child) Firuza Khanum Sultan Begum Mah Munir Sultan Begum
- parent of (child) Jahangir I the fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 to 1627
- parent of (child) Murad Mirza of Hindustan Hindustani Imperial and Royal
- parent of (child) Prince Daniyal Mughal prince
- parent of (child) Shakr-un-Nissa Begum shahzadi of Mughal Empire
- sibling of Al-aman Mirza Eldest son of Emperor Humayun
- sibling of Bakshi Banu Begum Daughter of Emperor Humayun and Gunwar Bibi
- sibling of Mirza Muhammad Hakim Mughal Empire prince
- married to Salima Sultan Begum third wife of the Mughal Emperor Akbar (1539–1613)
- married to Mariam-uz-Zamani Sahi Begum Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire Empress mother of the Mughal Empire (1543-1623)
- married to Ruqaiya Sultan Begum Empress consort of the Mughal Empire
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
18 statements on this record
- 18 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 6 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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