Editing Muhammad Azam Shah (section)

{{Short description|Brief Mughal emperor in 1707}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Azam Shah
| image        = Prince Azam Shah.jpg
| caption      = Azam Shah holding a turban jewel {{circa|1679}}
| title        = [[Padishah]]<br />[[Imperial and royal titles of the Mughal emperors|Al-Sultan Al-Azam]]
| succession   = [[Mughal Emperor]]
| reign        = 14 March 1707 – 20 June 1707
| predecessor  = [[Aurangzeb]]
| successor    = [[Bahadur Shah I]]
| succession1  = [[Subahdar]] of [[Bengal Subah|Bengal]]
| reign1       = 1677–1680
| predecessor1 = [[Fidai Khan Koka|Fidai Khan II]]
| successor1   = [[Shaista Khan]]
| reg-type1    = [[Mughal emperor|Badshah]]
| regent1      = [[Aurangzeb]]
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Jahanzeb Banu Begum]]|1669|March 1705|end=died}}
| spouse-type  = Consort
| spouses      = {{ubl|{{marriage|[[Ramani Gabharu|Rahmat Banu Begum]]|1668|1684|end=died}}
|{{marriage|[[Shahar Banu Begum]]|1681}}}}
| spouses-type = Wives
| issue        = {{ubl|[[Bidar Bakht]]
|Jawan Bakht
|Sikandar Shan
|Wala Jah
|Zih Jah
|Wala Shan
|Ali Tabar
|Gitti Ara Begum
|Iffat Ara Begum
|Najib-un-Nisa Begum}}
| full name    = Mirza Abu'l Fayaz Qutb-ud-Din Mohammad Azam Shah<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JM5wDwAAQBAJ&q=Mohammad+azam+shah&pg=PR8 |title=Studies in Indo-Muslim History by S.H. Hodivala Volume II: A Critical Commentary on Elliot and Dowson's History of India as Told by its Own Historians (Vols. V-VIII) & Yule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson |isbn=9780429757778 |last1=Garg |first1=Sanjay |year=2018 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref>
| house        = [[Mughal dynasty|House of Babur]]
| father       = [[Aurangzeb]]
| mother       = [[Dilras Banu Begum]]
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1653|6|28|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Shahi Qila, Burhanpur]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1707|06|20|1653|6|28|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Agra Subah]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| place of burial = [[Khuldabad]], Maharashtra, India
| religion     = [[Sunni Islam]] {{small|([[Hanafi]])}}
| dynasty      = [[Timurid dynasty]]
}}
{{Mughal}}

'''Mirza Abu'l Fayaz Qutb-ud-Din Mohammad Azam''' (28 June 1653 – 20 June 1707), commonly known as '''Azam Shah''', was briefly the seventh [[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]] from 14 March to 20 June 1707. He was the third son of the sixth Mughal emperor [[Aurangzeb]] and his chief consort [[Dilras Banu Begum]].

Azam was appointed as the [[heir-apparent]] (''Shahi Ali Jah'') to his father on 12 August 1681 and retained that position until Aurangzeb's death.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sir Jadunath Sarkar|title=Anecdotes of Aurangzib|year=1925|publisher=M.C. Sarkar & Sons|pages=21}}</ref> During his long military career, he served as the viceroy of [[Berar Subah]], [[Malwa]], [[Bengal]], [[Gujarat]] and the [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]]. Azam ascended the [[Peacock Throne|Mughal]] throne in [[Ahmednagar]] upon the death of his father on 14 March 1707. However, he and his three sons, [[Bidar Bakht]], Jawan Bakht and Sikandar Shan, were later defeated and killed by Azam Shah's older half-brother, Shah Alam (later crowned as [[Bahadur Shah I]]), during the [[Battle of Jajau]] on 20 June 1707.