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The Mughals (also spelled Moghul or Mogul) is a Muslim corporate group from modern-day North India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. [1] They claim to have descended from the various Central Asian Mongolic , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Turkic peoples that had historically settled in the Mughal India and mixed with the native Indian population. [ 1 ]
The nomenclature Mughal Empire is of English origin and not the name by which the empire was known then or designated. The Timurid Empire, which referred to itself as the Gurkaniya or Gurkani. The Mughal Empire, the Indian successor state to the Timurid Empire, which also referred to itself as the Saltanat e Gurkaniya or Saltanat e Mughaliya ...
Followers were referred to as chelah (meaning "disciples"). The major practices and beliefs of Dīn-i Ilāhī were as follows: The unity of God; Followers salute one-another with Allah-u-Akbar or Jalla Jalaluhu (meaning: "may His glory be glorified") Absence of meat of all kinds; One's "on-birth-by-anniversary" party was a must for every member
Mughal Khel, a sub-tribe of Yousafzai Pashtuns settled in Ghoriwala, Bannu. Mirza Mughal (1817–1857), a Mughal prince; Arjumman Mughal, Indian actress; Chaya Mughal, Indian cricketer; Farooq Mughal, American politician from Georgia; Fiyaz Mughal, founder of Tell MAMA; Tehmasp Rustom Mogul, Indian sailor; Mughal Road, road in Jammu and Kashmir ...
Map of Gunpowder empires Mughal Army artillerymen during the reign of Akbar. A mufti sprinkling cannon with rose water. The gunpowder empires, or Islamic gunpowder empires, is a collective term coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago, referring to three early modern Muslim empires: the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire and the Mughal Empire, in the ...
The closest to an official name for the empire was Hindustan, which was documented in the Ain-i-Akbari. [29] Mughal administrative records also refer to the empire as "dominion of Hindustan" (Wilāyat-i-Hindustān), [30] "country of Hind" (Bilād-i-Hind), "Sultanate of Al-Hind" (Salṭanat(i) al-Hindīyyah) as observed in the epithet of Emperor Aurangzeb [31] or endonymous identification from ...
Mansabdars were leaders of the Mughal Army, while faujdars were generals. The Mughals were credited for secular pluralism during the reign of Akbar, who promoted the religious doctrine of Din-i Ilahi. Later rulers promoted more conservative Islam. In 1717, the Mughal government replaced Viceroy Azim-us-Shan due to conflicts with his influential ...
Moghulistan, [a] also called the Moghul Khanate or the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, [b] was a Muslim, Mongol, and later Turkic breakaway khanate of the Chagatai Khanate and a historical geographic area north of the Tengri Tagh mountain range, [2] on the border of Central Asia and East Asia.