Images for Instruction: A Multilingual Illustrated Dictionary in Fifteenth-Century Sultanate India

Abstract This article focuses on the Miftāḥ al-Fużalāʾ (Key of the Learned) of Muhammad ibn Muhammad Daʾud Shadiyabadi (ca. 1490). The Miftāḥ is an illustrated dictionary made in the central Indian sultanate of Malwa, based in Mandu. Although the Miftāḥ’s only illustrated copy (British Library Or 32...

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Main Author: Gupta, Vivek (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2021, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-112
Further subjects:B word and image
B Multilingualism
B Lexicography
B Craft
B Persian manuscripts
B Sultanate India
B Wonder
B transculturation
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