Sher Afghan

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Ali Quli, later Sher Afgan , also Shirafgan ( Persian شیر افگنLion thrower) (died 1607 ) was the first husband of Mehr-un-Nisa, the later Mughal empress Nur Jahan .

Etymology of the word

Sherafghan is a compound word. Afgan ( Persian افگنWerfer) is from the infinitive afgandan ( Persian افگندنthrow) or knock someone over on the ground. Afgan is rarely pronounced with [k] instead of [g], especially the non-native speakers of the Persian language Scherafkan. In English books in the time of the Grand Mughal Jahangir Shirafgan , but correctly called Scherafgan ("tiger-throwing" or lion throwing ) in 1599. Löwengrappling is a modern explanation of Wöterverbindung. Shir ( Persian شیر) means milk. Here ( Persian شیرLion). Sher Shah Suri was a Pashtun or Afghan in Bihar. Sher Shah means king lion or lion king . Shah ye Sher + an means "The Lion King".

history

Ali Quli, a cupbearer of the Persian Shah and later a soldier , fled Persia to the court of the Grand Mogul Akbar I of India . In order to integrate him in India, Akbar decided to marry him off to the daughter of another Persian refugee. After he had been married to Mehr-un-Nisa in 1594 by the order of Akbar (probably at the request of the Mughal empress), he supported the project to bring a grandson of Akbar to the throne before his father ( Jahangir ), as the latter opposed the father (Akbar) had provided. After Jahangir - after Akbar's death - became a Mughal in 1605 and learned that Ali Quli was rebelling against him again, he had him arrested on a campaign in 1607. Allegedly, when Sher Afgan was arrested, he killed one of the Mughal's best friends before he was himself killed.

meaning

Tomb of Sher Afgan Khan

The significance of the Sher Afghan for history lies mainly in the fact that the future Empress Nur Jahan was married to a traitor in her first marriage, even if she was forced into this marriage. His death cleared the way for the marriage of his widow to the Mughal emperor Jahangir four years later (1611).

literature

  • Bamber Gascoigne: The Mughals - splendor and greatness of Mohammedan princes in India . Prisma-Verlag, Gütersloh 1987, ISBN 3-570-09930-X .
  • Ellison Banks Findly: Nur Jahan, Empress of Mughal India . Oxford University Press 1993, ISBN 0-19-507488-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] "دهشت افگن" [dahšat-afgan] literally means: terror thrower
  2. ↑ https://fastdic.com/word/%D8%A7%D9%81%DA%AF%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%86
  3. ↑ [2] sher-afgan means overthrowing lions Francis Johnson: A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English, London, 1852
personal data
SURNAME Afghan, Sher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quli, Ali (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first husband of Mehr-un-Nisa, the later Mughal empress Nur Jahan
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1607