Izz-un-Nissa

Izz-un-Nissa Begum
Queen of the Mughal Empire
Died28 January 1678[1]
Agra, India
Burial
Tomb of Sirhindi Begum, Old Delhi[2]
Spouse
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(m. 1617; died 1666)​
IssueJahan Afroz Mirza
HouseTimurid (by marriage)
FatherShahnawaz Khan
ReligionIslam

Izz-un-Nissa Begum was the third wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. She is popularly known by the title, Akbarabadi Mahal (which probably indicates that she hailed from the city of Akbarabad),[1][3] and commissioned the Akbarabadi Mosque in Shahjahanabad (present-day Old Delhi).[4] Less commonly, she is also referred to as Sirhindi Begum.[2]

  1. ^ a b Awrangābādī, Shāhnavāz Khān; Shāhnavāz, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn; Prashad, Baini (1952). The Maāthir-ul-umarā: being biographies of the Muhammādan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D. Asiatic Society. p. 924.
  2. ^ a b Sarker, Kobita (2007). Shah Jahan and his paradise on earth : the story of Shah Jahan's creations in Agra and Shahjahanabad in the golden days of the Mughals (1. publ. ed.). Kolkata: K.P. Bagchi & Co. p. 39. ISBN 9788170743002.
  3. ^ Blake, Stephen P. (2002). Shahjahanabad : the sovereign city in Mughal India, 1639–1739. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780521522991.
  4. ^ Fanshawe, H. C. (1998). Delhi, Past and Present. Asian Educational Services. p. 43. ISBN 9788120613188.