Editing Shah (section)

==Shahzade==
''Shahzade'' ({{langx|fa|شاهزاده}}, [[Transliteration|transliterated]] as ''Šâhzâde''). In the realm of a shah (or a loftier derived ruler style), a [[Prince#Islamic traditions|prince]] or [[princess]] of the [[Royal family|royal]] blood was logically called ''shahzada'' as the term is derived from shah using the Persian patronymic suffix -zâde or -zâdeh, "born from" or "descendant of". However the precise full styles can differ in the court traditions of each shah's kingdom. This title was given to the princes of the [[Ottoman Empire]] (''[[Şehzade]]'', [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]]: شهزاده) and was used by the princes of Islamic India (''Shahzāda'', [[Urdu]]: شہزاده, {{langx|bn|শাহজাদা|Shāhozāda}}) such as in the Mughal Empire. The Mughals and the [[Delhi Sultanate|Sultans of Delhi]] were of [[Indo-Persian culture|Indo-Persian]] and [[Turco-Mongol tradition|Turco-Mongol]] origin,<ref name="Richards1995-2">{{Citation |last=Richards |first=John F. |title=The Mughal Empire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHyVh29gy4QC&pg=PA2 |page=2 |year=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-56603-2 |access-date=9 August 2017 |archive-date=22 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922031915/https://books.google.com/books?id=HHyVh29gy4QC&pg=PA2 |url-status=live }} Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the dynasty and the empire itself became indisputably Indian. The interests and futures of all concerned were in India, not in ancestral homelands in the Middle East or Central Asia. Furthermore, the Mughal Empire emerged from the Indian historical experience. It was the end product of a millennium of Muslim conquest, colonization, and state-building in the Indian subcontinent."</ref><ref name="Schimmel2004">{{citation |last=Schimmel |first=Annemarie |title=The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7sewQQzOHUC |year=2004 |publisher=Reaktion Books |page=22 |isbn=978-1861891853}}</ref><ref name="Balabanlilar2012">{{citation |last=Balabanlilar |first=Lisa |title=Imperial Identity in Mughal Empire: Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern Central Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PS6PrH3rtkC |year=2012 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |page=2 |isbn=978-1848857261}}</ref> a continuation of traditions and habits ever since Persian language was first introduced into the region by [[Turco-Persian tradition|Turco-Persian]] dynasties centuries earlier.<ref>Sigfried J. de Laet. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PvlthkbFU1UC&dq=persian+language+in+anatolia&pg=PA734 ''History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century''] UNESCO, 1994. {{ISBN|9231028138}} p. 734</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQJHAQAAQBAJ&q=ghaznavids+brought+persian+to+south+asia&pg=PA18|title=South Asian Sufis: Devotion, Deviation, and Destiny|isbn=978-1441151278|access-date=2 January 2015|last1=Bennett|first1=Clinton|last2=Ramsey|first2=Charles M.|year=2012}}</ref>

Thus, in [[Oudh]], only sons of the sovereign ''shah bahadur'' (see above) were by birth-right styled "Shahzada [personal title] [[Mirza (noble)|Mirza]] [personal name] Bahadur", though this style could also be extended to individual grandsons and even further relatives. Other male descendants of the sovereign in the male line were merely styled "Mirza [personal name]" or "[personal name] Mirza". This could even apply to non-Muslim dynasties. For example, the younger sons of the ruling [[Sikh]] maharaja of Punjab were styled "Shahzada [personal name] Singh Bahadur".

The borrowing ''shahajada'', "Shah's son", taken from the Mughal title Shahzada, was the usual princely title borne by the grandsons and male descendants of a [[Kingdom of Nepal|Nepalese]] sovereign in the male line of the [[Shah dynasty]] until its abolition in 2008.

For the heir to a "Persian-style" shah's royal throne, more specific titles were used, containing the key element ''[[Vali Ahad]]'', usually in addition to ''shahzada'', where his junior siblings enjoyed this style.<ref>[http://beypeople.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/10/13772724-shahzada-son-of-shah Shahzada son of shah], [[Newsvine]].com</ref>