Sher Afghan Quli Khan

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Sher Afghan Quli Khan was a Mughal courtier and the first husband of Mehrunissa (who would later rule India as Nur Jehan). Like his wife, Sher Afghan was a Persian immigrant who fled to India after a fall from grace at the court of the Shah. He was the father of Mehrunissa's only child, a daughter, named Ladli Begum, who would eventually marry Prince Shahryar, a younger son of Jahangir, and rival to Shah Jahan.