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Shah Jahan

1592 - 1666

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Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I (Persian pronunciation: [ʃɑːh d͡ʒa.ˈhɑːn]; lit. 'King of the World'), was the fifth Mughal Emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658. During his reign, the Mughals reached the peak of their architectural and cultural achievements. The third son of Jahangir (r. 1605–1627), Shah Jahan participated in the military campaigns against the Sisodia Rajputs of Mewar and the rebel Lodi nobles of the Deccan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Jahan has received more than 10,874,338 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Shah Jahan is the 587th most popular politician (down from 471st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Pakistan and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Politician.

Shah Jahan was the emperor of the Mughal Empire from 1628-1658. He is most famous for building the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shah Jahan ranks 587 out of 15,577Before him are Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Manuel I Komnenos, Herbert Hoover, Oscar II of Sweden, Frederick William IV of Prussia, and Epaminondas. After him are Khosrow I, Valens, Darius II, Hans Frank, Ivan III of Russia, and Ptolemy XIV of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1592, Shah Jahan ranks 2Before him is John Amos Comenius. After him are Hong Taiji, Pierre Gassendi, Wilhelm Schickard, Gerard van Honthorst, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Jacques Callot, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Catalina de Erauso, Peter Snayers, and Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1666, Shah Jahan ranks 3Before him are Anne of Austria and Frans Hals. After him are François Mansart, Abbas II of Persia, Guercino, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Luisa de Guzmán, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma, and Albert Eckhout.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Shah Jahan ranks 2 out of 180Before him are Akbar (1542). After him are Chanakya (-375), Guru Nanak (1469), Pāṇini (-500), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Bhagat Singh (1907), Kanishka (78), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Vasubandhu (400), and Porus (-400).

Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Shah Jahan ranks 2Before him are Akbar (1542). After him are Benazir Bhutto (1953), Kanishka (78), Porus (-400), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Aga Khan III (1877), Ranjit Singh (1780), Imran Khan (1952), and Manmohan Singh (1932).