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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Hazrat Begum
| title = [[Shahzadi]] of the [[Mughal Empire]]
| image =
| caption =
| succession = [[Empress consort]] of the [[Durrani Empire]]
| reign = 5 April 1757 – 4 June 1772
| predecessor =
| successor =
| birth_date = {{birth-date|4 November 1741}}
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{circa}} {{death year and age|1774|1741}}
| death_place = [[Afghanistan]]
| burial_place = Mausoleum of Muhammad Shah, Nizamuddin Awliya, Delhi
| consort = yes
| spouse = [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]]
| house = [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] ''(by birth)''<br>[[Durrani]] ''(by marriage)''
| father = [[Muhammad Shah]]
| mother = [[Sahiba Mahal]]
| religion = [[Islam]]
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}}

'''Hazrat [[Begum]]''' (4 November 1741 – {{circa}} 1774) ({{lang-ps|حضرت بېګم}}) was [[empress consort]] of the [[Durrani Empire]] from 5 April 1757 to 4 June 1772 as the wife of [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]], the first emperor of the [[Durrani Empire]]. She was a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal princess]] by birth as the daughter of Mughal emperor [[Muhammad Shah]].

==Family and lineage==
Hazrat Begum was born a Mughal princess and was the daughter of Mughal emperor [[Muhammad Shah]] and his wife [[Sahiba Mahal]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sarkar|first1=Jadunath|title=Fall of the Mughal Empire.|date=1999|publisher=Orient Longman|location=Hyderabad|isbn=9788125017615|page=268|edition=4th}}</ref> At the age of sixteen in February 1756, she became so famous for her matchless beauty that the Mughal emperor [[Alamgir II]], who was then about sixty, used pressure and threats to force Sahiba Mahal and the princess' guardian and step-mother, [[Badshah Begum]], to give him Hazrat Begum's hand in marriage.<ref name=Islamic >{{cite book|last1=Aḥmad|first1=ʻAzīz|last2=Israel|first2=Milton|title=Islamic society and culture: essays in honour of Professor Aziz Ahmad|date=1983|publisher=Manohar|page=146|language=en}}</ref> The princess preferred death over marrying an old wreck of sixty and Alamgir II did not succeed in marrying her.<ref name="Islamic" />

==Marriage==
In April 1757, after sacking the imperial capital of [[Delhi]], the Durrani king Ahmed Shah Abdali desired to marry the deceased Emperor Muhammad Shah's 16-year-old daughter.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Comprehensive History of India: 1712-1772|date=1978|publisher=Orient Longmans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggduAAAAMAAJ&q=Hazrat+sahiba+mahal|language=en}}</ref> As she was only 16 years old, Badshah Begum again resisted handing over her tender charge to an Afghan king 35 years old, but Shah forcibly wedded her on 5 April 1757 in Delhi.<ref name=Sarkar71>{{cite book|last1=Sarkar|first1=Sir Jadunath|title=1754-1771 (Panipat). 3d ed. 1966, 1971 printing|date=1971|publisher=Orient Longman|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtU5AQAAIAAJ&q=Hazrat+sahiba+mahal|language=en}}</ref> After the wedding celebrations, Ahmad Shah took his young wife back to his native place of [[Afghanistan]]. The weeping bride was accompanied by Badshah Begum, Sahiba Mahal and a few ladies of note from the imperial Mughal harem.<ref name="Sarkar71" />

==See also==
*[[Muhammad Shah]]
*[[Mughal Empire]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Women of the Mughal Empire]]
[[Category:Mughal princesses]]
[[Category:Timurid princesses]]
[[Category:1741 births]]
[[Category:Mughal nobility]]
[[Category:1774 deaths]]
[[Category:People of the Durrani Empire]]

Hazrat Begum - Revision history

HungHanks23355: expanded intro also and fixed typos to improve readability

>LouisAragon: added Category:People of the Durrani Empire using HotCat