Editing Shah Jahan (section)

===Relations with the Safavid dynasty===
[[File:Shah-Jahan hunting lions at Burhanpur (July 1630).jpg|thumb|upright|Painting of Shah Jahan hunting [[Asiatic lion]]s at [[Burhanpur]], present-day [[Madhya Pradesh]], from 1630]]

Shah Jahan and his sons captured the city of [[Kandahar]] in 1638 from the [[Safavid]]s, prompting the retaliation of the Persians led by their ruler [[Abbas II of Persia]], who [[Siege of Kandahar (1648–1649)|recaptured it in 1649]]. The Mughal armies were unable to recapture it despite repeated sieges during the [[Mughal–Safavid War (1649–1653)|Mughal–Safavid War]].<ref>{{harvnb|Sen|2013|pp=169–170}}</ref> Shah Jahan also expanded the Mughal Empire to the west beyond the [[Khyber Pass]] to [[Ghazna]] and Kandahar.