Zainab Sultan Begum

Zainab Sultan Begum
Timurid princess
Queen consort of the Ferghana Valley
Queen consort of the Kabul
Diedc. 1506–07
Spouse
(m. 1504)
HouseTimurid (by birth)
FatherSultan Mahmud Mirza
MotherKhanzada Begum
ReligionIslam

Zainab Sultan Begum was Queen consort of Ferghana Valley and Kabul as the second wife of Emperor Babur. She like two of his other wives Aisha Sultan Begum and Masuma Sultan Begum was a direct cousin of the Babur.[1]

She was one of the first Mughal cousins to marry among the own family, which later became a common practice, which would be especially be followed by Humayun, the second Mughal emperor who succeeded Babur after his death in 1530.[2]

  1. ^ Zinat Kausar. Muslim women in medieval India. The University of California. p. 22.
  2. ^ Mohammad Maulana. Encyclopaedia Of Quranic Studies. Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd. p. 96. ISBN 9788126127719.