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Humayun
saidundated
Indeed Suleiman the Magnificent, deserves to be called the only Padshah on Earth.
— as quoted in Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain, 1877-1924 (1997) by Azmi Ozcan During a discussion with the Ottoman
Humayun
Second Mughal emperor from 1530 to 1540 and 1555 to 1556
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Lived 1508–1556, aged 48
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The Mughal emperor who lost an empire and spent fifteen years winning it back. Humayun's exile to Persia didn't just cost him his throne — it rewired the cultural DNA of the dynasty, flooding the subcontinent with Persian manuscripts, architecture, and noblemen that would define Mughal India long after his death.
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Humayun inherited the Mughal throne in Delhi on 26 December 1530 at twenty-two, inexperienced and immediately locked in rivalry with his half-brother Kamran Mirza, who held Kabul and Kandahar. Early in his reign he lost the entire empire to Sher Shah Suri. He spent fifteen years in exile, returning from Persia in 1555 with Safavid backing and a retinue of Persian noblemen who reshaped Mughal court culture — Central Asian roots gave way to Persian art, language, and literature that still mark the subcontinent in stone and manuscript. He quickly expanded the reclaimed empire before his death on…
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Humayun
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He holds aloft the banner of Islam and knocks down the infamous idols. He does away with people of infidelity and hostility (of Islam).
— Khwand Amir: Qanun-i Humayuni, M. Hidayat Hosain ed., Calcutta 1940. Cited in Harsh Narain, The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on
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