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MUGHAL
-- LATE (c.1656-1750) |
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More examples from *IRAN* |
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A Mughal farman from 1673, in nasta'liq script |
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An example of nasta'liq from Aurangzeb's time:
a leaf from a Shah-namah |
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A ghazal by Jami in elegant nasta'liq, from
an album, c.1680-1700, Mughal or Deccani |
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1695/6, a famous and gloriously carved emerald
with a Shi'a invocation, perhaps from the Deccan |
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A round personal seal of a Qazi, late 1600's,
probably from Ajmer |
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A gorgeously and minutely inscribed agate talisman,
from Bukhara, said to be 1600s/1700s |
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A very unusual Qur'an in the form of a long
scroll, with larger words and phrases shaped by blank spaces in the calligraphy,
early 1700's |
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A Quran leaf in naskh, with interlinear Persian
translation and commentary in nastaliq, early 1700s |
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A bazu-band or amulet for the upper arm, with
the Kalimah in the center and the Fatihah in really remarkably minute script
around the edge, early 1700s |
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A calligraphic panel in nasta'liq within gold
clouds, signed by Mehdi 'Ali Khan Hamadani, c.1700-10, from a Mughal album |
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Leaves from a Maghrabi Qur'an by Muhammad Murad,
1145/1732/3 |
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A calligraphic panel by the famous Shams ud-Din
of Hyderabad, c.1724-1748 |
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A nasta'liq leaf from a mss. of "Aja'ib
al-Makhluqat," India, 1700s |
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An elegant inscription in black nasta'liq,
accompanying a miniature painting of bhakti saints, from c.1740-50 |
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A late-Mughal Qur'an page, with lavish illumination |
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