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Salim ascended the throne with the imperial grand title of Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir Badshah Ghazi and thus began his 22-year reign at the age of 36. Soon after, Jahangir had to fend off his son Khusrau Mirza when he attempted to claim the throne based on Akbar's will.
Badshah (بادِشَاه) is a Persian title meaning "Emperor/Monarch/Ruler". Meaning the one who Conquered the Kafirs The Infidel non-Muslims. often translated as Emperor, while Ghazi (غَازِى) meant in Arabic "conqueror" or an Islamic warrior.
Jahangir (born Salim, [25] reigned 1605–1627) was born to Akbar and his wife Mariam-uz-Zamani, an Indian princess. [26] Salim was named after the Indian Sufi saint, Salim Chishti. [27] [28] He "was addicted to opium, neglected the affairs of the state, and came under the influence of rival court cliques". [11]
The mosque's full name "Masjid Abul Zafar Muhy-ud-Din Mohammad Alamgir Badshah Ghazi" is written in inlaid marble above the vaulted entrance. [25] The mosque's gateway faces east towards the Alamgiri Gate of the Lahore Fort, which was also commissioned by Aurangzeb.
Jahangir found more satisfaction in the theory of Vedanta, which he called Science of Tasawwuf. He became an admirer of Jadrup Gosain, who according to him had mastered this science, and used to live in a hole in a mountain. Jahangir walked barefooted to see him, and on meeting with him, he was impressed with his knowledge and simplicity.
The tomb is located in Jahangir's pleasure garden, the Dilkusha Garden, which had been laid out in 1557. [4] The Tomb of Asif Khan , built-in 1645, and the Akbari Sarai , built-in 1637, are located immediately west of Jahangir's tomb complex, and the three form an ensemble oriented on an east-west axis.
His first wife and chief consort was his first-cousin, Princess Badshah Begum, the daughter of Emperor Farrukhsiyar and his first wife, Gauhar-un-Nissa Begum. [47] They married after his accession, on 8 December 1721, at Delhi, [ 48 ] and he gave her the title Malika-uz-Zamani (Queen of the Age) [ 2 ] by which she was popularly known.
The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل, romanized: Dudmân-e Mughal) or the House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر, romanized: Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Babur that ruled the Mughal Empire from its inception in 1526 till the early eighteenth century, and then as ceremonial suzerains over much of the empire until 1857.