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Gulbadan Begum

1523 - 1603

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Gulbadan Begum (c. 1523 – 7 February 1603) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is best known as the author of Humayun-Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother and Babar's successor, Emperor Humayun, which she wrote on the request of her nephew and Humayun's son, Emperor Akbar. Gulbadan's recollection of Babur is brief, but she gives a refreshing account of Humayun's household and provides rare material regarding his confrontation with her half-brother, Kamran Mirza. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gulbadan Begum is the 2,395th most popular writer (up from 2,739th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 80th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Afghan Writer.

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Among writers, Gulbadan Begum ranks 2,395 out of 7,302. Before her are Shaul Tchernichovsky, Tian Han, Gertrud von Le Fort, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, André Frossard, and Nigidius Figulus. After her are Ernst Robert Curtius, John Marston, Paul Adam, Kyōka Izumi, Vasily Aksyonov, and Leonora Christina Ulfeldt.

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Among people born in 1523, Gulbadan Begum ranks 7. Before her are Catherine Howard, Anna Jagiellon, Gabriele Falloppio, Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Blaise de Vigenère, and Marco Antonio Bragadin. After her are Charles de Bourbon, Gaspara Stampa, Stradanus, Catherine Carey, Pieter Pourbus, and Jan Blahoslav. Among people deceased in 1603, Gulbadan Begum ranks 17. Before her are Şehzade Mahmud, Pierre Charron, Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg, George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Irina Godunova, and Ostilio Ricci. After her are Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł, Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Philippe de Monte, and Łukasz Górnicki.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Gulbadan Begum ranks 79 out of 177. Before her are Kujula Kadphises (20), Jalaluddin Haqqani (1939), Akhtar Mansour (1968), Ahmad Zahir (1946), Diodotus I (-285), and Ismail Khan (1946). After her are Baysunghur (1397), Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (840), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Abdullah Abdullah (1960), Muhammad of Ghazni (998), and Abdul Qadir (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

Among writers born in Afghanistan, Gulbadan Begum ranks 5. Before her are Rumi (1207), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Khaled Hosseini (1965), and Sanai (1080). After her are Unsuri (980), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Niloofar Rahmani (1992), and Nadia Ghulam (1985).

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