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Also known as Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur, Zahir-ud-din Muhammad, Baber, Ẓahīr al-Dīn, Emperor of Hindustan Muḥammad Bābar, Zahir al-Din Muhammad, Babar, Firdaws Makani

Babur (, ; 14 February 148326 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother respectively. He was also given the posthumous name of Firdaws Makani ('Dwelling in Paradise').

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Babur was a Central Asian ruler who founded the Mughal Empire in India and ruled from 1483 to 1530, tracing his ancestry back to two of history's most famous conquerors, Timur and Genghis Khan. He matters because he established a dynasty that would go on to become one of the most powerful and culturally influential empires in Indian history.

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Born
1483
Died
1530
Works
67

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  • Baburnâme
  • A Bábur-náme miniatúrái
  • Baber-nameh diagataice ad fidem codicis petropolitani edidit N. Ilminiski
  • Risolai Volidii͡a
  • Vekayi

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Quotes

  • My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.
  • [Hindustan] is a wonderful country. Compared with our countries it is a different world ; its mountains, rivers, jungles and deserts, its towns, its cultivated lands, its animals and plants, its peoples and their tongues, its rains, and its winds, are all different. ...Once the water of Sind is crossed, everything is in the Hindustan way, land, water, tree, rock, people and horde, opinion and custom.
  • In AH 934 (AD 1528), I attacked Chanderî and, by the grace of Allãh, captured it in a few hours… We got the infidels slaughtered and the place which had been a dãru’l-harb for years, was made into a dãru’l-Islãm.
  • Baburnama, Translated by S.A.A. Rizvi included in Mughal Kãlîna Bhãrata: Bãbur, Aligarh, 1960, p. 167

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Humayun and Babur (Late Shah Jahan Album) Babur detail.jpg
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Babur
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Babur ببر
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Ghazi
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Portrait of Babur in the Late Shah Jahan Album, painted . Smithsonian Collections.
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Mughal Emperor (Padishah)
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Position established Ibrahim Lodi (as Sultan of Delhi)
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Humayun
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Emir of Kabul
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October 1504 – 21 April 1526
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Mukim Beg
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Himself as the Mughal Emperor
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Emir of Fergana
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10 June 1494 – February 1497
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Jahangir Mirza II
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Umar Shaikh Mirza II
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Emir of Samarkand

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Babur
date of birth
1483-02-14
date of death
1530-12-26
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ﻇﻬﻴﺮ ﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ محمد بابر
name in native language
ظهیرالدین مُحمَّد بابُر
nickname
ظهير الدين
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  • Name
  • Background
  • Ruler of Central Asia
  • As Timurid ruler of Fergana
  • At Kabul
  • Foreign relations
  • Formation of the Mughal Empire
  • First Battle of Panipat
  • Battle of Khanwa
  • Battle of Chanderi
  • Battle of Ghaghra
  • Religious policy
  • Personal life and relationships
  • Poetry
  • Family
  • Consorts
  • Issue
  • Death and legacy
  • Citations
  • References
  • Secondary sources
  • Primary sources
  • Further reading
  • External links

Babur (, ; 14 February 148326 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother respectively. He was also given the posthumous name of Firdaws Makani ('Dwelling in Paradise').

Born in Andijan in the Fergana Valley (now in Uzbekistan), Babur was the eldest son of Umar Shaikh Mirza II (1456–1494, Timurid governor of Fergana from 1469 to 1494) and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur (1336–1405). Babur ascended the throne of Fergana in its capital Akhsikath in 1494 at the age of twelve and faced rebellion. He conquered Samarkand two years later, only to lose Fergana soon after. In his attempt to reconquer Fergana, he lost control of Samarkand. In 1501, his attempt to recapture both the regions failed when the Uzbek prince Muhammad Shaybani defeated him and founded the Khanate of Bukhara.

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