Person1593 – 1631
Mumtaz Mahal
Also called: Arjumand Banu Begum
Wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who died giving birth to their fourteenth child; the Taj Mahal was built in her memory
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The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal, a white marble tomb at Agra, for his late wife Mumtaz Mahal — a masterpiece of Indo-Islamic architecture.
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- Shah Jahan1592 – 1666
Fifth Mughal emperor (r. 1628–1658), builder of the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort of Delhi
Themes this person appears in
- Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence