The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c12.s1.6

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Zahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur, the founder of the Mughul Empire in Hindūstān, was born in Farghāna on 14 February, 1483. His father, ‘Umar Shaikh Mīrzā, was descended in the fourth generation from the great Tamerlane, and his mother, Qutluq Nigār Khānum, the daughter of Yūnus Khān, was descended from Chagatāi Khān, the son of Chingīz Khān. ‘Umar Shaikh Mīrzā was one of the nine sons of Sultān Abū Sa‘īd Khān, who, in 1452, had succeeded to what yet remained of Tamerlane's vast empire, thanks very largely to the support of the Uzbegs of Turkestān under their Qipchaq leader, Abu-’l-Khair Khān. On the death of Sultān Abū Sa‘īd Khān in 1469 his empire was divided among his sons.