Mah Chuchak Begum

Mah Chuchak Begum
BornAfghanistan
Died28 March 1564
Bala Hissar, Kabul, Mughal Empire
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(m. 1546; d. 1556)
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ReligionSunni Islam

Mah Chuchak Begum (Pashto: ماه چوچک بېګم, meaning moon flower; died 28 March 1564) was a wife of the second Mughal emperor Humayun. She was an ambitious lady who threw out the Naib Subadar and ruled Kabul on her own, once leading her army in person and defeating at Jalalabad the Mughal general Munim Khan whom the Emperor Akbar had dispatched over Mah Chuchak's perceived transgression.