Aisha Sultan Begum | |
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Timurid princess Queen consort of the Ferghana Valley Queen consort of the Samarkand Zan-i-Kalan | |
Spouse | |
Issue | Fakhr-un-Nissa |
House | Timurid (by birth) |
Father | Sultan Ahmed Mirza |
Mother | Qutaq Begum |
Religion | Islam |
Aisha Sultan Begum (Persian: عائشه سلطان بیگم) was Queen consort of Ferghana Valley and Samarkand as the first wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor.
Aisha was a first cousin of her husband and was a Timurid princess by birth. She was the daughter of Babur's paternal uncle, Sultan Ahmed Mirza, the King of Samarkand and Bukhara.[1]