Shakr-un-Nissa Begum
{{Infobox royalty
| consort =
| name = Shakr-un-Nissa Begum
| image =
| caption =
| title =Shahzadi of Mughal Empire
| reign =
| spouse = {{Marriage|Shahrukh Mirza
|1594|1607|end= {{Abbr|d.|death}}}}
| issue =
| house = Timurid
| father = Akbar
| mother= Bibi Daulat Shad
|religion=Sunni Islam| birth_date =
| birth_place = Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, Mughal Empire
| death_date = 1 January 1653
| death_place = Akbarabad (present day Agra), Mughal Empire
| burial_place = Akbar's tomb, Sikandra, Agra
| full name =
}}
Shakr-un-Nissa Begum, also Shakr al-Nisa Begum{{cite web |title=Portrait of Mirza Shah Rukh |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/1005038-p/portrait-of-mirza-shah-rukh |website=www.rct.uk |language=en}} (died 1 January 1653) was a Mughal princess, and a daughter of Emperor Akbar.
Early life
Shakr-un-Nissa Begum was born at Fatehpur Sikri, to Akbar and Bibi Daulat Shad. She had a younger full sister named Aram Banu Begum.{{cite book|first1=Thomas William|last1=Beale|first2=Henry George|last2=Keene|title=An Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the Late Thomas William Beale|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.510327|publisher=W.H. Allen|year=1894|pages=107}}
Shakr-un-Nissa was brought up in Akbar's care and turned out to be very well, good-natured, and innately compassionate towards all people. Jahangir had great fondness for his half-sister.{{cite book|first1=Emperor|last1=Jahangir|first2=Alexander|last2=Rogers|first3=Henry|last3=Beveridge|title=The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri; or, Memoirs of Jahangir. Translated by Alexander Rogers. Edited by Henry Beveridge|url=https://archive.org/details/b29352423_0001|publisher=London Royal Asiatic Society|year=1909|pages=[https://archive.org/details/b29352423_0001/page/36 36]}}
Marriage
File:Mirza Shah Rukh (d. 1607-8) ruler of Badakhshan. Emperor Akbar's distantly related Timurid cousin, married Akbar's daughter, Shakr al-Nisa Begum. Was forced to flee to the Mughal Empire, and was made governor of Malwa.jpg after fleeing to the Mughal Empire.{{cite web |title=Portrait of Mirza Shah Rukh |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/1005038-p/portrait-of-mirza-shah-rukh |website=www.rct.uk |language=en}}]]
In 1594, Akbar arranged her marriage with Shahrukh Mirza. He was the son of Ibrahim Mirza, the son of Sulaiman Mirza of Badakshan and Haram Begum.{{cite book|first=Ramesh Chandra|last=Varma|title=Foreign Policy of the Great Mughals, 1526 - 1727 A.D.|publisher=Shiva Lal Agarwala|year=1967|pages=49}} His mother was Muhtarima Khanum, the daughter of Shah Muhammad Sultan Jagatai (grandson of Mahmud Khan) and Khadija Sultan Khanum (daughter of Ahmad Alaq).{{cite book|author =Begum, Gulbadan|title=The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama)|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|year=1902|pages=247, 267}} The marriage took place on 2 September 1594 in the quarters of Empress Hamida Banu Begum.{{cite book|title=Akbarnama of Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak - Volume I|first=Henry|last=Beveridge|year=1907|publisher=Asiatic Society, Calcuta|pages=990}}
Shahrukh Mirza was also married to Shakr-un-Nissa's cousin, Kabuli Begum, the daughter of her uncle Mirza Muhammad Hakim.{{cite book|first1=Shāhnavāz Khān|last1=Awangābādī|first2=Baini|last2=Prasad|first3='Abd al-Hayy ibn|last3=Shāhnavāz|title=The Maāthir-ul-umarā: Being biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D.|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|year=1979|pages=781}}
Shakr-un-Nissa became a widow, after Shahrukh Mirza's death in 1607. He died leaving four sons, Hasan Mirza and Husayn Mirza, who were twins, Sultan Mirza, and Badi-uz-Zaman Mirza, and three daughters.{{cite book|first1=Emperor |last1=Jahangir|first2=Wheeler McIntosh|last2=Thackston|title=The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha |publisher=Washington, D. C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Oxford University Press|year=1999|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/303 303–4]|isbn=978-0-19-512718-8 }}
After the death of Akbar in the year 1605, she exercised her influence over her brother Jahangir and aided her stepmothers Mariam-uz-Zamani and Salima Sultan Begum to secure a pardon for the Khusrau Mirza, the eldest son of Jahangir.{{Cite journal|last=Xavier|first=Jesuit|title=Missoes Jesuitas Na India|page=44|year=1606|publisher=British Library London, MS 9854}}
Death
Shakr-un-Nissa Begum died on 1 January 1653. She had started from Akbarabad towards Shahjahanabad. She was buried in her father's mausoleum, located at Sikandra.{{cite book|first1=Inayat|last1=Khan|first2=Wayne Edison|last2=Begley|title=The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: an abridged history of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian: the nineteenth-century manuscript translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, add. 30,777)
|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|pages=489}}{{cite book|first=Muhammad Saleh|last=Kanbo|title=Amal e Saleh al-Mausoom Ba Shahjahan Nama (Persian) - Volume 3|pages=117}}
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