Masuma Sultan Begum (daughter of Babur)

Masuma Sultan Begum
Shahdokht of Mughal Empire
Bornc. 1508
Kabul
(present-day Afghanistan)
Spouse
(m. 1517; d. 1539)
HouseTimurid
FatherBabur
MotherMasuma Sultan Begum
ReligionSunni Islam

Masuma Sultan Begum (Persian: معصومہ سلطان بیگم; born c. 1508) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of the first Mughal emperor, Babur. She is frequently mentioned in the Humayun-nama by her sister, Gulbadan Begum, who calls her sister 'Elder sister Moon' (mah chacha).[1]

  1. ^ Begum, Gulbadan (1902). The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama). Royal Asiatic Society. p. 115.