Bībī Jamāl Khātūn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ernst, Carl W.
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Bībī Jamāl Khātūn (d. 1057/1647), also known as Bībī Jīv, the sister of the Indian Qādirī Ṣūfī leader Miyāṇ Jīv or Miyāṇ Mīr (d. 1045/1635). Her life is known only from a short biography in Sakīnat al-awliyāʾ (the peace of the saints), which the Mughal prince Dārā Shikūh (d. 1069/1659) wrote between 1050/1640 and 1052/1642-3 as a hagiography of Miyāṇ Jīv and his disciples. Dārā Shikūh, himself a disciple of Miyāṇ Jīv, knew Bībī Jamāl Khātūn personally and held her in great respect;