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Bahadur Shah Zafar II
Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) was the twentieth Mughal Emperor of Hindustan. The Mughal Empire ended with him during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Zafar was a celebrated poet and Sufi mystic who was exiled to Rangoon by the British East India...
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Portrait of Shah Jahan
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, USA.
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Folio from Shah Jahan's Album by Mir`Ali
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 Daulat, c.1610 – 20, Mughal; borders...
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Shah Jahan on Horseback
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.
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Battle of Marj Ayyun
The Battle of Marj Ayyun (10 June 1179, also given as the Battle on the Litani) was a military engagement between Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem (r. 1174-1185) and Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193). Saladin decisively won the...
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Shah Ismail I
Shah Ismail I (r. 1501-1524), founder of the Safavid Dynasty of Iran, portrait by Cristofano dell'Altissimo.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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Shah Mosque
Decorative muqarnas vaulting in the iwan entrance to the Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran.
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Tomb of Hoshang Shah, Mandu
The tomb of Hoshang Shah in Mandu, Madhya Pradesh.
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Coin of Jahan Shah
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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Tomb of Feroz Shah Tughluq
The tomb of Feroz Shah Tughluq, Sultan of the Delhi sultanate (r. 1351-1388) in the Hauz Khas Complex, Delhi.
