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{{Infobox royalty
|consort = yes
| name = Parhez Banu Begum
| image =
| succession =
| title = [[Shahzadi]] of the [[Mughal Empire]]
| caption =
| successor =
| predecessor =
| reign =
| spouse =
| house = [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]]
| father = [[Shah Jahan]]
| mother = [[Kandahari Begum]]
| birth_date = 21 August 1611
| birth_place = [[Agra]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{circa}} {{death year and age|1675|1611}}
| death_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| place of burial = Delhi
| religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
}}
'''Parhez Banu Begum''' (21 August 1611 – {{circa}} 1675) was a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] princess, the first child and eldest daughter of Mughal emperor [[Shah Jahan]] from his first wife, [[Kandahari Begum]]. She was also the older half-sister of her father's successor, the sixth Mughal emperor [[Aurangzeb]].

==Life==

Parhez was born on 21 August 1611 in [[Agra]] to Prince Khurram (the future emperor Shah Jahan) and his first wife Kandahari Begum. She was named 'Parhez Banu Begum' ([[Persian language|Persian]]: "the abstinent Princess")<ref name="Fraser">{{cite book|last1=Fraser|first1=James|title=The History of Nadir Shah: Formerly Called Thamas Kuli Khan, the Present Emperor of Persia. ... At the End is Inserted, a Catalogue of about Two Hundred Manuscripts in the Persic and Other Oriental Languages, Collected in the East. By James Fraser|date=1742|publisher=W. Strahan|page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDYVAAAAQAAJ&q=parhez+banu|language=en}}</ref> by her paternal grandfather, Emperor [[Jahangir]]. However, in the ''Maasir-i-Alamgiri'', she is referred to as Purhunar Banu Begum.<ref name="Sarker">{{cite book|last1=Sarker|first1=Kobita|title=Shah Jahan and his paradise on earth : the story of Shah Jahan's creations in Agra and Shahjahanabad in the golden days of the Mughals|date=2007|publisher=K.P. Bagchi & Co.|location=Kolkata|isbn=9788170743002|page=187|edition=1. publ.}}</ref> Her father, Prince Khurram, was the third son of Emperor Jahangir, while her mother, Kandahari Begum, was a princess of the prominent [[Safavid dynasty]] of [[Iran]] (Persia) and was a daughter of Sultan Muzaffar Husain Mirza Safavi (who was a direct descendant of Shah [[Ismail I]]).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nicoll|first1=Fergus|title=Shah Jahan|date=2009|publisher=Viking|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780670083039|page=64}}</ref>

Parhez was Shah Jahan's first child and his eldest daughter and was brought up by her step-great-grandmother, the dowager empress [[Ruqaiya Sultan Begum]], who had been Emperor [[Akbar]]'s first and chief wife,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Findly|first1=Ellison Banks|title=Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India|date=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780195360608|page=98}}</ref> and who had also brought up her father, Shah Jahan.<ref name="Thackston1999p437">{{cite book |last=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan |date=1999 |title=The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India |translator-last=Thackston |translator-first=Wheeler M. |translator-link=Wheeler Thackston |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=437 |isbn=978-0-19-512718-8 }}</ref>

Although her mother was not Shah Jahan's favourite wife, nonetheless, she was loved by her father; who had earnestly requested his daughter, [[Jahanara Begum]] (his eldest daughter from [[Mumtaz Mahal]]) on his deathbed, to look after Parhez. She was also loved and well-cared for by her younger half-brother, Aurangzeb.<ref name="Sarker" />

==Death==
Perhez died on 19 October 1675 in Delhi. The nobles of the subah burried her in the musoleum (garden) built by her.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Jadunath|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62691|title=Maasir-i- Alamgiri|date=1947}}</ref>

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Parhez Banu Begum'''
|2= 2. [[Shah Jahan|Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Shah Jahan I, Mughal Emperor]]<ref>Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene, ''An Oriental Biographical Dictionary'' (1894), p. 309</ref>
|3= 3. [[Kandahari Begum]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Beale and Keene|1894|p=309}}</ref>
|4= 4. [[Jahangir|Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir, Mughal Emperor]]<ref>Jl Mehta, ''Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India'' (1986), p. 418</ref>
|5= 5. [[Jagat Gosain]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Mehta|1986|p=418}}</ref>
|6= 6. Muzaffar Husain Mirza [[Safavid Dynasty|Safawi]]<ref>Nagendra Kr Singh, ''Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: Muh-R'' (2001), p.427</ref>
|7=
|8= 8. [[Akbar|Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, Mughal Emperor]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Mehta|1986|p=374}}</ref>
|9= 9. [[Mariam-uz-Zamani]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Mehta|1986|p=374}}</ref>
|10= 10. [[Udai Singh of Marwar|Udai Singh]], Raja of [[Jodhpur State|Marwar]]<ref>Soma Mukherjee, ''Royal Mughal Ladies and Their Contributions'' (2001), p. 128</ref>
|11=11. Manrang Devi of [[Gwalior]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Mukherjee|2001|p=128}}</ref>
|12= 12. Husain Mirza [[Safavid Dynasty|Safawi]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Singh|2001|p=427}}</ref>}}

==References==
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Parhez Banu Begum - Revision history

imported>Manavati: Removed spouse name as it is well known knowledge none of Shah Jahan's daughters were married. Also didn't find any information regarding her marriage. If you wish to add the spouse name, please add reference.