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| name = Bibi Mubarika Yusufzai<br>{{lang|ps|بي بي مبارکه یوسفزۍ}}
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| title = [[Queen consort]] of [[Kabul]] <br> [[Empress consort]] of the [[Mughal Empire]]
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| spouse = {{Marriage|[[Babur]]|30 January 1519|26 December 1530|end=died}}
| issue =
| house = [[Pashtun dynasty|Pashtun]]
| father = Shah Mansur Yusufzai
| mother =
| birth_date = 16th century
| birth_place = [[Kabul]]
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| religion = [[Islam]]
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'''Bibi Mubarika Yusufzai''' ({{langx|ps|بيبي مبارکه یوسفزۍ}};) was the [[Empress consort of the Mughal Empire]]. She was the fifth wife of Emperor [[Babur]], the founder of the [[Mughal Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Babur |title=Babur Nama: journal of Emperor Babur |date=2017 |publisher=Penguin Random House India |isbn=978-0-14-400149-1 |editor-last=Hiro |editor-first=Dilip |edition=First published |series=Penguin classics |location=Gurgaon |pages=362 |translator-last=Beveridge |translator-first=Annette Susannah}}</ref>

She is frequently mentioned in the Humayun-nama by her stepdaughter [[Gulbadan Begum]], who calls her stepmother 'The Afghan lady' or 'Afghani Aghacha'.<ref name="gulbadan">{{cite book|author =Begum, Gulbadan|title=The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama)|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|year=1902|pages=266|author-link=Gulbadan Begum}}</ref> "Afghan" is an [[ethnonym]] referring to the [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] people.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

==Family==
Bibi Mubarika was the daughter of Malik Shah Mansur, a [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[Yusufzai]] chief. She was the granddaughter of Malik Sulaiman Shah, and the niece of Taus Khan.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Emperor|last1=Babur|author-link1=Babur|first2=Annette Susannah|last2=Beveridge|title=The Baburnam in English (Memoirs of Babur)|publisher=Luzac & Co., London|year=1922|pages=375}}</ref>

One of her brothers named Mir Jamal accompanied Babur to India in 1525, and held high posts under [[Humayun]] and [[Akbar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Soma |title=Royal Mughal ladies and their contributions |date=2001 |publisher=Gyan Publ. House |isbn=978-81-212-0760-7 |location=New Delhi |pages=118}}</ref> He was given the title of Khan.

==Marriage==
Babur married her at Kehraj on 30 January 1519.<ref>{{cite book|first=Radhey|last=Shyam|title=Babur|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|year=1978|pages=263}}</ref> The [[alliance]] was the sign and seal of amity between him and her tribe. An intelligent woman, Mubarika played an important role in the establishment of friendly relations between the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] and the Yusufzai Pashtun chiefs.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aftab |first=Tahera |title=Inscribing South Asian Muslim women: an annotated bibliography & research guide |date=2008 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-15849-8 |series=Handbook of oriental studies |location=Leiden |pages=46}}</ref> Mubarika was much-loved by Babur as evidenced by the fact that she was one of the small and select party of ladies who were the first to join him in India in 1529.<ref name="gulbadan"/>

==Death==
Bibi Mubarika lived through Humayun's reign and died early in Akbar's reign.<ref name="gulbadan"/>

==In popular culture==
Bibi Mubarika is a character in Farzana Moon's historical novel ''Babur: The First Moghul in India'' (1977).<ref>{{cite book|first=Farzana|last=Moon|title=Babur: The First Moghul in India|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|year=1977|pages=268|isbn=978-8-171-56702-7}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:16th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:16th-century Mughal Empire people]]
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