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The rulers of the Mughal Empire shared certain genealogical relations with the Mongol royals. As they emerged in a time when this distinction had become less common, the Mughals identification as such has stuck and they have become known as one of the last Mongol successor states.
- Mirza Mughal
Mirza Mughal was the fifth son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the...
- Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur
Biography. A senior Prince of the Mughal Royal Family, he...
- Mirza Mughal
The rulers of the Mughal Empire shared certain genealogical relations with the Mongol royals. As they emerged in a time when this distinction had become less common, the Mughals identification as such has stuck and they have become known as one of the last Mongol successor states. As descendants of Timur, they are also members of the Timurid dynasty, and therefore were connected to other royal ...
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The Mughals took great pride in their ancestry. They claimed to be descended from both the 14th-century Turkic warlord Tīmūr (Tamerlane) and the even more formidable Mongol conqueror Genghis (Chingiz) Khan (d. 1227).
The Mughals were a branch of the Timurid dynasty of Persianized Turco-Mongol origin from Central Asia. Their founder Babur ( r.1526–1530 ), a Timurid prince from the Fergana Valley (modern-day Uzbekistan ), was a direct descendant of both Timur and Genghis Khan .
Feb 6, 2013 · A few weeks ago we wrote about the Timurid ancestry of the Mughals while referring briefly to the emperor Babur’s maternal ancestor, Genghis Khan (in fact ‘Mughal’ itself is derived from the word Mongol).
KEYWORDS: Chingīz Khān; dynastic genealogy; iconography; legitimacy; Mughal empire; Tīmūr. INTRODUCTION: TURCO-MONGOL PRECEDENTS The decades following the death of Tīmūr—one of the Mughals’ most presti-gious ancestors—witnessed an incredible efflorescence of materials entirely
