The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Shāh BegArghūn—Shuja‘ Beg—son of Ẕū’n-nūn—his close association with his father 274; mentioned as with him in Qandahār (902) 71, (910) 198, 227; they give refuge to Badī‘u’z-zamān Bāī-qarā (902) 71, (913) 307; act with the Mīrzā (903) 94, 95; favoured by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 264; his dominance ib.; proffers and renounces co-operation with Bābur against Shaibānī (913) 330, 331-2; loses Qandahār to him 337-8; ☛ released from Ṣafawī imprisonment by his slave Saṃbhal’s devotion (917) 338 n. 2, 365; news of his taking Kāhān reaches Bābur (925) 395; his interpretation of Bābur’s reiterated attack on Qandahār 365, ☛ 427; other suggestions for the attack of 926 AH. 430; ☛ action of his checks an expedition into Hindūstān (926) 428, 429, 430; ☛ his position and political relations 429; Bābur’s campaign against Qandahār (926-928) 366, 430-436, App. J. xxxiv; ☛ final surrender to Bābur (928) ib.; ☛ his death 437, 443; his son Shāh Ḥasan, brother Muḥammad Muqīm, slave Mehtar, commissary Qīzīl q.v.; [♰930 AH.-1524 AD.?].

Shāh BegīmBadakhshī, wife of Yūnas Khān Chaghatāī—particulars 22-3; visited by Bābur (903) 92, (907) 149, (908) 157; delays to accept his plans 158; meets her younger son Aḥmad 159; ☛ ordered by Shaibānī to stay in Tāshkīnt 184; comes to Bābur in Kābul (911) 246; disloyal (912) 317; his reflections on her conduct 318-9; goes to Badakhshān (913) 21, 35, 341; captured by Abā-bikr Kāshgharī; her sons Maḥmūd and Aḥmad, her daughter Daulat-sult̤ān, her nephew Sanjar Barlās; her grandsons Mīrzā Khān and Sa‘īd (and his brothers) q.v.

Shāh Sult̤ān Begīm (? Arghūn), wife of Ābū-sa‘īd Mīrān-shāhī and mother of ‘Umar Shaikh—her parentage not stated 13 n. 5,2926 45 n. 1; goes from Akhsī to Andijān when widowed (899) 32; a mediator (905) 113; her death announced (907) 149; [♰906 AH.-1501 AD.].

Muḥammad Shaibānī Khān—Shaibāq Khān2927—Aūzbeg-Shaibān Chīngīz-khānid—his relations with Ḥamza and Mahdī Sult̤āns q.v.; invited to help Bāī-sunghar (903) 73; raids Shīrāz 92; defeats Tarkhāns in Dabūsī (905) 40, 124, (906) 137; takes Bukhārā 125; is given Samarkand by ‘Alī Mīrān-shāhī 125; murders the Mīrzā (906) 128; his men murder Khwāja Yaḥyā and two sons 128; loses Samarkand by Bābur’s surprise attack 131, 132, 134; Bābur’s comparison of this capture with Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s of Herāt 135; Bābur’s estimate of Shaibāni’s position 137-8; defeats Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 138-141; besieges Samarkand and effects its surrender (906) 142-7; receives an envoy from Ḥusain Bāī-qarā 145; crosses the frozen Saiḥūn and raids Shahrukhiya 151; plunders Aūrā-tīpā 152-3; referred to (908) 158, 168; invited into Farghāna 172; defeats the Chaghatāī Khāns and Bābur at Archīān 18, ☛ 183; captures Andijān (909?) 192; beheads Walī Qībchāq (910) 196; takes Khwārizin (911) 242, 255-6; co-operation against him invited by Ḥusain Bāī-qarā (910) 190, (911) 255; his men beaten in Badakhshān (911-2) 294-5; takes Balkh 300; his capture of Herāt (913) 263, 275, 296-7, 325-330; besieges Nāṣir Mīrān-shāhī in Qandahār and retires 339-40, 343; a recognized menace to Kābul 21 n. 4, 340, 342; orders Sa‘īd Chaghatāī’s death (914) 349; ☛ murders Chaghatāī and Dughlāt chiefs 350; war begun with Shāh Ismā‘īl (915) 350; defeated and killed at Merv 350; his wives Mihr-nigār Chaghatāī, Khān-zāda Mīrān-shāhī, Zuhra Aūzbeg q.v.; his sons Tīmūr and Khurram q.v.;