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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...

Coronation of Malik-Shah I (1055-1092 CE), sultan of the Seljuk Empire. This miniature is from the Jami' al-Tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles), a world history book by Rashid al-Din, completed in Tabriz circa 1307 CE...

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...

Reza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1925-1941) and his son and successor Mohammad Reza (r. 1941-1979) in Persepolis, c. 1939.

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...

Shah Ismail I (r. 1501-1524), founder of the Safavid Dynasty of Iran, portrait by Cristofano dell'Altissimo. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Decorative muqarnas vaulting in the iwan entrance to the Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran.

The tomb of Feroz Shah Tughluq, Sultan of the Delhi sultanate (r. 1351-1388) in the Hauz Khas Complex, Delhi.

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