Babur
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Babur was the founder of the Mughal Empire in South Asia. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother, respectively. He was also given the posthumous name of Firdaws Ma
Portrait of Babur in the Late Shah Jahan Album, painted c. 1640. Smithsonian Collections.
Detail of Babur's dynastic seal, from a Mughal land grant dating from August 1527
Babur Family Tree
Babur as the young Emir of Fergana, joining forces with Sultan Ali Mirza in 1497 near Samarqand. Painted c. 1589 (Baburnama).
Mughal Empire
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The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Ka
Babur
…Babur (Persian: ببر, Persian: ; 14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in South Asia. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother, respectively. He was also given the posthumous name of…
The empire at its greatest extent c. 1700, under Aurangzeb
Akbar holds a religious assembly of different faiths in the Ibadat Khana in Fatehpur Sikri.
Group portrait of Mughal rulers, from Babur to Aurangzeb, with the Mughal ancestor Timur seated in the middle. On the left: Shah Jahan, Akbar and Babur, with Abu Sa'id of Samarkand and Timur's son, Miran Shah. On the right: Aurangzeb, Jahangir and Humayun, and two of Timur's other offspring Umar Shaykh and Muhammad Sultan. Created c. 1707–12.
Portrait of Bahadur Shah Zafar