Mirza ghiyas beg biography

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Her story forms the acme of this family’s standing and will be outlined here in the next part of this family’s narrative.

Ghiyas Beg became the diwan (treasurer) of Kabul.

Shah Jahan married Abdul Hasan's daughter Arjumand Banu Begum, Mumtāz Mahal, who was the mother of his four sons, including his successor Aurangzeb. Mohammad-Sharif was later listed under the service of Shah Tahmasp I (r. Ghiyas Beg was the not the first member of his family to move to India—his cousin Asaf Khan Jafar Beg and the uncle of Asmat Begum, Mirza Ghiyasuddin Ali Asaf Khan, had been enrolled into the provincial assignments of Akbar.

Ghiyas was later appointed diwan (treasurer) for the province of Kabul.

The tomb of Istalju, or Sher Afghan, in Bengal

Their subsequent marriage saw a meteoric rise in the status of Ghiyas Beg. His mansab increased rapidly and he was also titled Wazir.

Emperor Jahangir with Mirza Ghiyas Beg, the I’timaduddawla(Pic source: Wikipedia)

Between Ghiyas Beg, Mehr-un-Nissa – later the empress Nur Jahan – and his son Abul Hasan (Asaf Khan), the family was perhaps at its strongest in the period post 1611.

They took turns riding these animals and make their way to Qandahar, where Asmat Begum gave birth to a second daughter, in 1577. Believing that the child had signaled a change in the family’s fate, she was named Mehrunnisa, meaning "sun among women". In the first part (link at the bottom), we explored the tomb of Parwar Khanum at Badaun, Uttar Pradesh.

Their position was precarious, and some stories say that the family even abandoned the extra mouth that had to be fed.

Around the same time, they were helped by a merchant, Malik Masud, who also happened to be a nobleman in the Mughal court. Due to his astute skills at conducting business he quickly rose through the ranks of the high administrative officials.

Inter-India Publ. For his excellent work he was awarded the title of ‘‘Itimad-ud-Daula‘‘ (‘Pillar of the State’) by the emperor. He was married to Asmat Begum, a daughter of the Aqa Mulla clan, an illustrious family of the state. During the latter's reign, Mirza Ghiyas Beg was appointed treasurer for the province of Kabul.

His fortunes further increased during the reign of Akbar's son and successor Jahangir (r.

She also became well versed in art, literature, music and dance.

Ghiyas' daughter, Mehrunissa (Nur Jahan) married Akbar's son Jahangir in 1611, and his son Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan served as a general to Jahangir and as a grand vizier to his successor Shah Jahan.

Ghiyas was also the grandfather of Mumtaz Mahal (originally named Arjumand Bano, daughter of Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan), the wife of the emperor Shah Jahan, responsible for the building of the Taj Mahal.

By the reckoning of my two eyes he is less than one body, but by the reckoning of wisdom he is more than thousands. She became well versed in Arabic and Persian. There he was received by the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. I went in to see him toward the end of the day. One of his sons was executed for being part of a plot against Emperor Jahangir.

New Delhi. A son, Abul Hasan – later titled Asaf Khan – is married to the daughter of another eminent noble Khwaja Ghias-ud-din of Qazvin. 6 . Both because of Nurjahan Begam’s distress and because of the affection I had for him, 1 had to turn back to the camp.