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Akbarnama
The Akbarnama is the official Persian-language chronicle of the Mughal emperor Akbar, composed by his court historian and adviser Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. Its three-part account covers Akbar's ancestry, his reign and conquests, and the administration, society, and culture of his empire, with the final portion commonly known as the Ain-i-Akbari. Imperial copies were illustrated by teams of Mughal ar...
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Hamzanama
The Hamzanama is an illustrated Mughal manuscript recounting the legendary adventures of Amir Hamza. Commissioned by Emperor Akbar and produced by a large imperial workshop during the 16th century, it originally comprised about 1,400 unusually large paintings on cloth, accompanied by text. Its surviving folios combine Persian manuscript conventions with Indian artists, settings, colors, and narrat...
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