Zebunnis or Zeb un-Nisa Begum Sahib ( pers. زیبالنسا مخفی , English present Delhi ) is a Persian poetess, a descendant of Amir Timur , the daughter of the padishah of the Mughal Empire of Aurangzeb .
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| Birth name | Zeb un-Nisa Begum Sahib |
| Aliases | Mahfi |
| Date of Birth | 1639 |
| Place of Birth | Delhi |
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| Place of death | Delhi |
| Occupation | poet |
| Direction | lyrics |
| Genre | gazelle |
| Language of Works | Persian |
She owned Persian , Arabic and Urdu , Turkic and studied philosophy, literature, astronomy. She was famous for her calligraphy . Distinguished beauty.
The author of the commentary on the Qur'an "Zebi tafasir" ( Beauty of interpretations ). The poetic heritage has about 4 thousand beits and gazelles , mainly in Farsi languages. The main theme of the poetic creativity of Zebunnis is the position of the Eastern woman, her inner feelings, humiliation and spiritual nobility.
Gallery
Princess Zebunnis with accompanying
Portrait of Zebunnis ( Abanindranath Tagore )
Sebunnis Palace, 1880, Aurangabad.
Zebunnis was engaged to her first cousin, Prince Suleiman Sikokh.
Literature
- Zebunnis // Euclid - Ibsen. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1972. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ch. Ed. AM Prokhorov ; 1969-1978, v. 9).
- Zebunnis // Kazakhstan. National Encyclopedia . - Almaty: Kazakh Encyclopedias , 2005. - T. II. - ISBN 9965-9746-3-2 .
- Krieger-Krynicki A. Zebunissa: princesse captive à la cour du Grand Moghol. Roman. Paris: Mercure de France, 1990 (English trans. 2005)
- Zebunniso. Fire and tears. M. 1977.
- Zebuniss. Fire and tears. M. 1983.
- Sayings of Persian and Tajik poets. SPb. 2005 (In Sat. there are poems Zebunissy).