Hamida Banu Begum

حميدة بانو بيكم

Draft card for Hamida Banu Begum, wife of Humayun and mother of Akbar, titled Maryam Makani, named from an open reference description (Wikidata); her entry in Hasan Ibrahim's Tarikh al-Islam is not yet checked on the page, so no dates are given.

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Roles
royal-consort
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata
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Parent of
Akbar the Great

People and things also explored

Akbar takes Gujarat, 980· Humayun ibn Babur· Akbar the Great

Sources

  • Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
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Akbar takes Gujarat, 980

In 980 Sultan Akbar b. Humayun — four generations from Timur — took Gujarat.