Syeda Momena Khatun ( bn, সৈয়দা মোমেনা খাঁতুন, fa, , Sayyidah Muʾminah Khātūn) was a princess of the
Sultanate of Bengal's
Hussain Shahi dynasty. She was the mother of
Isa Khan, the leader of the
Baro-Bhuiyan confederacy.
Biography
Khatun was born in the 16th-century into a ruling class
Bengali
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*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
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Sunni Muslim
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family known as the
Hussain Shahi dynasty, in the
Bengal Sultanate. Her father, Sultan
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah, was the son of
Alauddin Husain Shah – the founder of the dynasty. Her sister was the wife of
Khidr Khan Surak
Khiḍr Khān Surak ( bn, খিজির খান সুরক, Khizir Khan Shurok, fa, خضر خان سرک) was the governor of Bengal from 1539 to 1541 CE.
History
When Sher Shah Suri ascended to the throne of Delhi in 1539, he appointed Kha ...
.
She later married Sulaiman Khan né Kalidas Gazdani, who was her father's
Dewan and the
Zamindar
A zamindar (Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as ...
of
Sarail
Sarail ( bn, সরাইল, Shorail) is an upazila of Brahmanbaria District located in the Chittagong Division and near the Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.
History
The leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan zamindars, Isa Khan, had his first and temporar ...
. According to historian M. Abdul Kader, Gazdani had fallen in love with Khatun prior to the marriage. In Sarail, she gave birth to two sons;
Isa Khan, who would later become the leader of the
Baro-Bhuiyan confederacy after the fall of the Sultanate, and Ismail Khan.
See also
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History of Bengal
The history of Bengal is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It includes modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam's Karimga ...
References
16th-century births
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Hussain Shahi dynasty
16th-century women
16th-century Bengalis
16th-century Indian Muslims
Bengali Muslims
Sunni Muslims
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