Bibi Mubarika

 ( Wives Of Babur ) 

Bibi Mubarika Yusufzai (;) was the Empress consort of the Mughal Empire. She was the fifth wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire.

She is frequently mentioned in the Humayun-nama by her stepdaughter Gulbadan Begum, who calls her stepmother 'The Afghan lady' or 'Afghani Aghacha'. "Afghan" is an ethnonym referring to the Pashtuns people.

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Family Bibi Mubarika was the daughter of Malik Shah Mansur, a Pashtuns Yusufzai chief. She was the granddaughter of Malik Sulaiman Shah, and the niece of Taus Khan.

One of her brothers named Mir Jamal accompanied Babur to India in 1525, and held high posts under Humayun and Akbar.

He was given the title of Khan.

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Marriage Babur married her at Kehraj on 30 January 1519. The alliance was the sign and seal of amity between him and her tribe. An intelligent woman, Mubarika played an important role in the establishment of friendly relations between the Mughal Empire and the Yusufzai Pashtun chiefs.

Tahera Aftab (2025). 9789004158498, Brill. ISBN 9789004158498

Mubarika was much-loved by Babur as evidenced by the fact that she was one of the small and select party of ladies who were the first to join him in India in 1529.

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Death

Bibi Mubarika lived through Humayun's reign and died early in Akbar's reign.

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In popular culture

Bibi Mubarika is a character in Farzana Moon's historical novel Babur: The First Moghul in India (1977).

Farzana Moon (1977). 9788171567027, Atlantic Publishers & Dist. ISBN 9788171567027

Categories: Wives Of Babur, Pashtun Women, Year Of Birth Unknown, Year Of Death Unknown, 16th-century Indian Women, 16th-century Mughal Empire People, Pashtun People

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