Shah Abuʾl-Maʿali , Mir Sayyid ʿAli, and the Sayyids of Tirmiz: Three Portraits Challenge Akbari Historiography

This essay closely examines three early Mughal portraits—the Portrait of Shah Abuʾl-Maʿali, Portrait of Mir Musavvir, and an alleged self-portrait of Mir Sayyid ʿAli—as well as a seal impression from an early sixteenth-century copy of Jamal al-Din Husayni Shirazi's Rawzat al-Aḥbāb. The resultin...

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Main Author: Parodi, Laura Emilia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2018]
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2018, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-143
Further subjects:B Persian albums
B Mughal painting
B court politics
B Religious History
B Mughal history
B Safavid painting
B Kabul
B sayyids
B Mughal portraiture
B kitābkhāna
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