Babur, a Chagatai prince descended from Timur and Genghis Khan, defeats the Delhi Sultanate at Panipat and founds the Mughal Empire; under Akbar and his successors it rules most of India and joins Persian culture, Sunni law, and a Hindu majority in one state.
Tagged: Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 1526 (exact)
- Era
- Later Empires; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Panipat; today Panipat, India
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam
- Key figures
- Babur, Ibrahim Lodi
- Key texts
- Baburnama
Primary Sources
- Baburnama
Secondary Sources
- Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (Faber, 1991)
- Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies (Cambridge, 3rd ed. 2014)
Provenance: HIST-0244; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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