Humāyūn, Nāṣir al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Anooshahr, Ali
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Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad Humāyūn (d. 963/1556) was the second Mughal emperor, who ruled intermittently in India and Afghanistan from 937/1531 to 947/1540 and 952/1545 to 963/1556. He was born in 913/1508 in Kabul to Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (r. 932-7/1526-30), the founder of the Mughal state, and he died in Delhi. Humāyūn spent the early years of his life in Afghanistan, serving as the governor of Badakhshan for most of his youth. He moved to India in December 932/