Sultan Murad Mirza
| Murad | |
|---|---|
| Shahzada Mirza of the Mughal Empire | |
 Sultan Murad Mirza with his half-brother Prince Daniyal | |
| Born |
7 June 1570 Fatehpur Sikri, Agra |
| Died |
12 May 1599 (aged 28) Jalnapur, Deccan |
| Burial |
15 May 1599 Humayun's Tomb |
| Issue |
Shahzada Rustam Mirza(1588-1597) Shahzada Alam Mirza(1590-1624) Shahzada Arbaham Alif Aziz Mirza(1593-1613) Shahzadi Iffat Jahan Banu Begum(1589-1637) |
| Father | Akbar |
| Religion | Islam, Din-e-Ilahi |
Shahzada Murad Mirza (8 June 1570 – 12 May 1599[1]) was a Mughal prince as the second surviving son of Mughal Emperor Akbar.
In 1577, he was awarded his first 7000 mansab (military rank)[2] and in 1584, the 9000 one.[3]
He admired the skills of his brothers Salim (who later came to be known as Emperor Jahangir) and Daniyal Mirza. He died due to alcoholism.
Salima Sultan Begum was not his real mother.
Birth and education
Murad was born on 7 June 1570 in the house of the saint Shaikh Salim Chishti, at Fathabad (Fatehpur Sikri), Agra. Murad was born barely nine months after the birth of his older brother and heir apparent, Prince Salim. In the year 1581.
He was first educated by Abu-l-Fazl and, as from 1580, by Jesuit priests Antonio de Montserrat[4] (as tutor) and Francisco Aquaviva, who were called up by Akbar himself to teach Murad Portuguese and the basics of Christianity.
Murad became the first Mongol ruler to be educated by western Jesuit priests or, as Dr. Oscar R. Gómez points out, the first person to be educated in the paradigmatic model driven by Murad’s father Yalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, the 3rd Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso, and Jesuit Antonio de Montserrat, which resulted in the current existentialist model.[5]
Hence, Sultan Murad Pahari has become the first person resulting from the amalgamation of Tibetan tantric Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity (Din-e-Ilahi).[6]
Family
His first marriage was to the granddaughter of Raja Ali Khan Faruqi, King of Khandesh.[7] He next married at Lahore on 15 May 1587, Habiba Banu Begum Sahiba, daughter of Khan-i-Azam Mirza Aziz Koka, sometime Subahdar of Gujarat, Bengal and Malwa, and granddaughter of Akbar's foster father Shams ud-Din Ataga Khan.
From Habiba Begum he had three sons, Prince Rustam Mirza who was born at Lahore on 27 August 1588, Prince Alam Mirza who was also born at Lahore around 4 November 1590, and Prince Arbaham Alif Aziz Mirza who was born at Multan three years later on 7 October 1593. Prince Rustam, however, died in Lahore on 9 December 1597, at the age of 9. Prince Murad's daughter Iffat Jahan Banu Begum married Shahzada Parviz (son of his elder brother Jahangir). Besides the above, he had also married two Rajput princesses.
Death
Murad died from alcoholism at Jalnapur, Deccan, on 12 May 1599 while leading Akbar's Deccan campaign in the Ahmednagar Sultanate. He was buried in the Mausoleum of Emperor Humayun in Delhi.
References
- ↑ Ain-i-Akbari volume2
- ↑ Mansabdari system
- ↑ Dr. Ricard Von Garbe, Akbar, The Emperor Of India, 1909
- ↑ Spanish Geographical Society. "Antonio de Montserrat in the final frontier". Newsletter of the Spanish Geographical Society 43.
- ↑ Gomez, Oscar R. (2013). Tantrism in the Society of Jesus - from Tibet to the Vaticcan today. Editorial MenteClara. p. 28. ISBN 978-987-24510-3-5.
- ↑ Gomez, Oscar R. (2015). Antonio de Montserrat - Biography of the first Jesuit initiated in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. Editorial MenteClara. p. 32. ISBN 978-987-24510-4-2.
- ↑ Vincent Arthur Smith, Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605, 1917