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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Iffat-un-Nissa Begum
| title = [[Empress consort]] of the [[Durrani Empire]]
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| spouse = Nasrullah Mirza<br>[[Ahmad Shah Durrani]]
| house = [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] ''(by birth)''<br>[[Afsharid dynasty|Afsharid]] ''(by marriage)''<br>[[Durrani]] ''(by marriage)''
| father = Dawar Bakhsh
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'''Iffat-un-Nissa Begum''' ({{lang-fa|عفت النسا بیگم}}) meaning 'Modest among Women' was a Mughal princess, the daughter of Prince Dawar Bakhsh, the great grandson of Emperor [[Shah Jahan]].

==Family and lineage==
Iffat-un-Nissa was born a Mughal princess, the daughter of Prince Dawar Bakhsh.<ref>{{cite book|first=Iradj|last=Amini|title=The Koh-i-noor Diamond|publisher=Roli Book Private Limited|date=June 1, 2013|isbn=978-9-351-94035-7}}</ref> He was the son of Prince Izad Bakhsh, son of Prince [[Murad Bakhsh]],<ref>{{cite book|first=Sayed H.|last=Askari|title=Iqbalnama|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|year=1983|pages=379 n. 387}}</ref> the son of Emperor [[Shah Jahan]] and his wife [[Mumtaz Mahal]]. His mother was Mihr-un-Nissa Begum, the daughter of Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] and his consort [[Aurangabadi Mahal]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Munis D.|last=Faruqi|title=The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=August 27, 2012|pages=43|isbn=978-1-139-53675-2}}</ref>

==Marriages==
===Nasrullah Mirza===
On 26 March 1739 Emperor [[Nadir Shah]] of the [[Afsharid dynasty]], married Iffat-un-Nissa to his younger son Nasrullah Mirza. According to the Mughal custom, Nasrullah was required to give an account of his ancestors up to seventh generation. Nadir Shah told him to say that he was the son of Nadir Shah, grandson of the sword, great grandson of the sword, and so on.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hari Ram|last=Gupta|title=Mrathas and Panipat|publisher=Punjab University|year=1961|pages=325}}</ref> For one week before the ceremony, rejoicings on a grand scale continued day and night. The bank of Jamuna opposite the Diwan-i-Khas was illuminated with lamps every night with combats of elephants, oxen, tigers, and deer were held in the day.<ref>{{cite book|first=William|last=Irvine|first2=Sir Jadunath|last2=Sarkar|title=Later Mughals|publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications|year=2007|pages=686|isbn=978-9-693-51924-2}}</ref>

===Ahmad Shah Durrani===
After Nasrullah's death, the Durrani emperor [[Ahmed Shah Durrani]] married her himself. In April 1757, after sacking the imperial capital of Delhi, he also married the deceased Emperor Muhammad Shah's 16-year-old daughter, [[Hazrat Begum]]. The retreating camp included Iffat-un-Nissa and [[Gauhar-un-Nissa Begum]], the daughter of [[Alamgir II]] as well.<ref>{{cite book|first=Sir Jadunath|last=Sarkar|title=Fall of the Mughal Empire: 1754-1771. (Panipat) 2 ed., rev. 1950|publisher=M. C. Sarkar|year=1950|pages=92}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Women of the Mughal Empire]]
[[Category:Mughal princesses]]
[[Category:Timurid princesses]]
[[Category:Mughal nobility]]

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