Muhammad Akbar (Mughal prince)

Muhammad Akbar

Shahzada of the Mughal Empire
Mirza[1]
Prince Akbar holding a jewel, c. 1677
Born11 September 1657
Aurangabad, India
Died31 March 1706(1706-03-31) (aged 48)
Mashad, Persia
Burial
Mashad, Persia
Spouse
Salima Banu Begum
(m. 1672)
Issue
  • Neku Siyar
  • Muhammad Asghar
  • Safiyat-un-nissa
  • Muin ud-din Hussain
  • Buland Akhtar
Names
Mirza Muhammad Akbar
HouseHouse of Babur
Dynasty Timurid dynasty
FatherAurangzeb
MotherDilras Banu Begum

Mirza Muhammad Akbar (11 September 1657 – 31 March 1706)[2] was a Mughal prince and the fourth son of Emperor Aurangzeb and his chief consort Dilras Banu Begum. He went into exile in Safavid Persia after a failed rebellion against his father in the Deccan.

He was the father of Neku Siyar, a pretender to the Mughal throne for a few months in 1719.[3]

  1. ^ Mughal title Mirza, the title of Mirza and not Khan or Padshah, which were the titles of the Mongol rulers.
  2. ^ According to Tarikh-i-Muhammadi, his date of death is 31 March 1706 (Irvine, William (1922) Later Mughals, Volume I, Jadunath Sarkar ed., Calcutta: M. C. Sarkar & Sons, p.1)
  3. ^ Elliot, Sir Henry Miers (1959). Later Moghuls. Susil Gupta (India) Private. p. 97.