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{{Infobox royalty
| consort =
| name = Shakr-un-Nissa Begum
| image =
| caption =
| title =[[Princess|Shahzadi]] of [[Mughal Empire]]
| reign =
| spouse = Shahrukh Mirza
| issue =
| house = [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]]
| father = [[Akbar]]
| mother= Bibi Daulat Shad
|religion=[[Sunni Islam]]| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Fatehpur Sikri]], [[Agra]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| death_date = 1 January 1653
| death_place = Akbarabad (present day [[Agra]]), [[Mughal Empire]]
| burial_place = [[Akbar's tomb]], [[Sikandra, Agra|Sikandra]], [[Agra]]
| full name =
}}

'''Shakr-un-Nissa Begum''' ({{lang-fa|شکرالنسا بیگم}}; died 1 January 1653) was a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] princess, the daughter of Emperor [[Akbar]].

==Early life==
Shakr-un-Nissa Begum was born at [[Fatehpur Sikri]], [[Agra]] to Akbar's wife,Bibi Daulat Shad. She had a younger full sister named [[Aram Banu Begum]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Thomas William|last=Beale|first2=Henry George|last2=Keene|title=An Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the Late Thomas William Beale|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.510327|publisher=W.H. Allen|year=1894|pages=107}}</ref>

Shakr-un-Nissa was brought up in Akbar's care, and turned out to be very well, good natured, and innately compassionate towards all people. Jahangir had a constant love for her.<ref>{{cite book|first=Emperor|last=Jahangir|first2=Alexander|last2=Rogers|first3=Henry|last3=Beveridge|title=The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri; or, Memoirs of Jahangir. Translated by Alexander Rogers. Edited by Henry Beveridge|url=https://archive.org/details/b29352423_0001|publisher=London Royal Asiatic Society|year=1909|pages=[https://archive.org/details/b29352423_0001/page/36 36]}}</ref>

==Marriage==
In 1594, Akbar arranged her marriage with Shahrukh Mirza. He was the son of Ibrahim Mirza, the son of Sulaiman Mirza of [[Badakshan]] and Haram Begum.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ramesh Chandra|last=Varma|title=Foreign Policy of the Great Mughals, 1526 - 1727 A.D.|publisher=Shiva Lal Agarwala|year=1967|pages=49}}</ref> His mother was Muhtarima Khanum, the daughter of Shah Muhammad Sultan Jagatai and Khadija Sultan Khanum, daughter of [[Ahmad Alaq]].<ref>{{cite book|author =[[Gulbadan Begum|Begum, Gulbadan]]|title=The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama)|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|year=1902|pages=267}}</ref> The marriage took place on 2 September 1594 in the quarters of Empress [[Hamida Banu Begum]].<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Akbarnama]] of [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak]] - Volume I|first=Henry|last=Beveridge|year=1907|publisher=Asiatic Society, Calcuta|pages=990}}</ref>

Shahrukh Mirza was also married to Shakr-un-Nissa's cousin, Kabuli Begum, the daughter of her uncle [[Mirza Muhammad Hakim]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Shāhnavāz Khān|last1=Awangābādī|first2=Baini|last2=Prasad|first3='Abd al-Hayy ibn|last3=Shāhnavāz|title=The Maāthir-ul-umarā: Being biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D.|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|year=1979|pages=781}}</ref>

Shakr-un-Nissa became a widow, after Shahrukh Mirza's death in 1607. He died leaving four sons, Hasan Mirza and Husayn Mirza, who were twins, Sultan Mirza, and Badi-uz-Zaman Mirza, and three daughters.<ref>{{cite book|first=Emperor |last=Jahangir|first2=Wheeler McIntosh|last2=Thackston|title=The Jahangirnama : memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha |publisher=Washington, D. C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Oxford University Press|year=1999|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/303 303–4]}}</ref>

==Death==
Shakr-un-Nissa Begum died on 1 January 1653. She had started from Akbarabad towards Shahjahanabad, on purpose of meeting Shah Jahan. She was buried in her [[Akbar's tomb|father's mausoleum]], located at [[Sikandra, Agra|Sikandra]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Inayat|last=Khan|first2=Wayne Edison|last2=Begley|title=The Shah Jahan nama of 'Inayat Khan: an abridged history of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian : the nineteenth-century manuscript translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, add. 30,777)
|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|pages=489}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Muhammad Saleh|last=Kanbo|title=Amal e Saleh al-Mausoom Ba Shahjahan Nama (Persian) - Volume 3|pages=117}}</ref>

==References==
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