Abu Sa'id Mirza

Abu Sa'id Mirza ابو سعید میرزا
Mirza Sultan
Mughal illumination of Sultan Abu Sa'id Mirza
Ruler of the Timurid Empire
Reign	Samarkand: 1451–1469 Herat: 1459–1469
Predecessor	Ibrahim Mirza
Successor	Sultan Husayn Bayqara
Born	c. 1424 Herat, Timurid Empire (present-day Afghanistan)
Died	8 February 1469(1469-02-08) (aged 44–45)
Burial	Cairo, Egypt (head only)
Spouse	See below
Issue	Sultan Ahmad Mirza Sultan Mahmud Mirza Umar Shaikh Mirza II Ulugh Beg Mirza II Many other children
Names Sultan Abu Sa'id Mirza bin Sultan Muhammad Mirza bin Mirza Miran Shah bin Shuja-ud-din Muhammad Timur Barlas
Dynasty	House of Timur
Father	Muhammad Mirza
Mother	Shah Islam Agha
Religion	Sunni Islam

Abu Sa'id Mirza (Chagatay/Persian: ابو سعید میرزا; b. 1424 – 8 February 1469 d.) was the ruler of the Timurid Empire during the mid-fifteenth century, and he was the paternal grandfather to the Mirza Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur Badshah Ghazi, who founded the Moghul Empire in the South Asian subcontinent in 1526 AD. Born a minor prince of the Timurid dynasty, Abu Sa'id quickly established himself as the most prominent among his warring relations. Over the course of two decades, he reunified much of the Timurid Empire, which had become fractured in the aftermath of the death of his great-uncle Shah Rukh. However, Abu Sa'id's hopes of restoring the empire to its former extent at the time of Timur ultimately failed after he was killed during an invasion of what is now western Iran.