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The third Mughal Emperor Akbar's (1540-1605) grandson Shah Jahan (1592-1666) as a young prince. He would become the fifth Mughal Emperor and hold the title of Shah Jahan the Magnificient. Opaque watercolour and...

A miniature painting of Sultan Nur ad-Din (also spelt Nur al-Din, 1118 - 1170 CE), from a manuscript of the History of Outremer by William of Tyre (c. 1130 - 1186 CE). The manuscript containing this image...

A folio from an album of the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666) which includes calligraphy by Mir 'Ali. Ink with opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 16th century, Bukhara. The illumination is by...

Portrait of Shah Jahan (1592-1666), ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1628-58, drawing in pen and brown ink, with brown wash applied by brush, by Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1656-61. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio...

Saladin (1137-93) was the Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193) who shocked the western world by defeating an army of the Christian Crusader states at the Battle of Hattin and then capturing Jerusalem in 1187. Saladin all but...

Shah Jahan on Horseback, folio from the Shah Jahan Album. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper by Payag, c. 1630. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Naqsh-e Jahan Square is a public urban square situated at the centre of Isfahan in Iran. Constructed by Shah Abbas I the Great at the beginning of the 17th century CE, it is now an important historical site and one...

Coin of Muzaffar al-Din Jahan Shah ibn Yusuf (r. c. 1438-1467 CE), leader of the Qara Qoyunlu Oghuz Turkic tribal confederacy. Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

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Edessa (modern Urfa), located today in south-east Turkey but once part of upper Mesopotamia on the frontier of the Syrian desert, was an important city throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages. A city within the Seleucid Empire, then...