Muhammad Husain Mirza Dughlat

For the Timurid ruler, see Muhammad Husain Mirza.

Muhammad Husain Mirza Dughlat
Dughlat Prince Mirza Beg
Muhammad Husain Mirza Dughlat entangled in bedsheets, being presented to Timur. Baburnama , 1590
Successor	Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat
Died	1508
Spouse	Khub Nigar Khanim
Issue	Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat
House	Chagatai
Dynasty	Dughlat (through paternal lineage) Borjigin (through maternal lineage)
Father	Hyder Mirza, Doghlat, Amir of Kashgar
Religion	Sunni Islam
Occupation	Ruler of Auratipa

Muhammad Husain Mirza Dughlat, of the Mongol Dughlats clan, also Muhammad Hussain Mirza Kurkan, was the eldest son of Hyder Mirza, Doghlat, Amir of Kashgar. ^[1] Muhammad Husain Mirza married Khub Nigar Khanim (b. 1463), the younger sister of Babur's mother Qutlugh Nigar Khanum, so he was an uncle of Babur by alliance. ^[2]

Circa 1501, Muhammad Husain Mirza was the ruler of the town of Auratipa. ^[2] Babur, looking for a fief to govern, asked his uncle Mahmud Khan of Tashkent for some lands, so that "that my uncle in his condescension and graciousness would grant province or district". Mahmud Khan promised Babur the town of Auratipa, but Muhammad Husain Mirza refused to cede the town to Babur. ^[2]

By 1504, Babur had taken control of Kabul, Muhammad Husain Mirza banded with Sultan Sanjar and Mirza Khan to conspire against Babur in Kabul in April–May 1507. ^{[3] [4]} The Baburnama relates relates how he got entangled in bedsheets while fleeing from Babur. ^{[5] [6]} Babur released him due to their family connection, but Muhammad Husain Mirza was finally killed in 1508 by the Uzbek leader Shaybani Khan. ^{[1] [5]}

He was the father of Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, a high officer of the Mughal emperor Babur, and creator of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi , a history of Central Asia. ^[1] In his Tarikh-i-Rashidi , he greatly played down his father's treacherousness towards Babur. ^[7]

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  Babur in armour, witnessing Muhammed Husain Mirza entangled in bedding, having run into Khanini's bedding room, in April or early May, 1507. ^[4]
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  Muhammad Husain Mirza brought before Babur and laughing courtiers in the bedroll in which he tried to hide (1507)
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  Khub Nigar Khanim, aunt of Babur, wife of Muhammad Husain Mirza Dughlat

References

1. Balfour 1885, p. 136.
2. Dale 2018, p. 46.
3. Verma 2016, p. 24.
4. Wade 1998, p. 22.
5. Babur & Beveridge 1922, p. 319.
6. "Baburnama Painting: Babur witnessing Muhammed Husain Mirza entangled in bedding, having run into Khanini's bedding room, in April or early May, 1507". Victoria and Albert Museum. 1589.
7. Mīrzā, Ḥaydar (1895). The Tarikh-i-Rashidi of Mirza Muhammad Haidar. S. Low, Marston. p. 199, note 1.

Sources

• Balfour, Edward (1885). The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial, Industrial, and Scientific. Bernard Quaritch. p. 136.
• Babur, Emperor of Hindustan; Beveridge, Annette Susannah (1922). The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur). London, Luzac. p. 319.
• Verma, Som Prakash (12 February 2016). The Illustrated Baburnama. Routledge. p. 24. ISBN   978-1-317-33863-5.
• Dale, Stephen F. (3 May 2018). Babur. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN   978-1-108-47007-0.
• Wade, Bonnie C. (1998). Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. University of Chicago Press. p. 22. ISBN   978-0-226-86841-7.