Page "Murad IV" Paragraph 9

In the year 1626, the Mughal Emperor Jahangir began to contemplate an alliance between the Ottomans, Mughals and Uzbeks against the Safavids, who had defeated the Mughals at Kandahar.

He even wrote a letter to the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV, Jahangir's ambition however did not materialize due to his death in 1627.

However, Jahangir's son and successor Shah Jahan perused the a goal of alliance with the Ottoman Empire.