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Golshan Album
The ''Muraqqaʿ-e Gulshan'' or ''Moraqqaʿ-e Golshan'' ('Gulshan Album') is an eclectic album (''muraqqa'') of miniature paintings, drawings, calligraphy and engravings by Indo-Persian, Deccani, Turkish and European artists. The album was compiled in early 17th century AD (11th century AH) Mughal India by Prince Salim (later Emperor Jahangir) as a source of wisdom and pleasure.Eslami 2012 001 Most of its surviving folios are in the library of Gulistan Palace, Tehran. Provenance It has been suggested, apparently without good evidence, that the Gulshan album was acquired by Nader Shah Afshar during his invasion of India and returned with him to Persia in 1741. The core of the Gulshan album (92 folios) remains in the library of Gulistan Palace in Tehran (no. 1663),Atil 1978, p. 100. but many folios have been removed and are now scattered across art galleries and private collections worldwide. A group of some 25 folios was acquired in Persia by Heinrich Karl Brugsch in 1860 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanha
Rafi Khawar ( Punjabi, ) (4 August 1942 – 2 June 1986), popularly known as Nanha (Urdu: ننھا), was a Pakistani actor and comedian. He started his film career in 1966 and earned several awards including 3 Nigar awards.Death anniversary of film, TV actor Rafi Khawar (Nanha) today Samaa TV News website, Published 2 June 2016, Retrieved 1 February 2022 Career His first film was ''Watan Ka Sipahi'', released in 1966. Nanha got a breakthrough from film ''Noukar'' in 1976. He played the lead role in film ''Tehka Pehlwan'' in 1979, and in the same year ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a population of over 14 million. Lahore is one of Pakistan's major industrial, educational and economic hubs. It has been the historic capital and cultural center of the wider Punjab region, and is one of Pakistan's most Social liberalism, socially liberal, Progressivism, progressive, and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities. Origins of Lahore, Lahore's origin dates back to antiquity. The city has been inhabited for around two millennia, although it rose to prominence in the late 10th century with the establishment of the Walled City of Lahore, Walled City, its fortified interior. Lahore served as the capital of several empires during the medieval era, including the Hindu Shahis, Gha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Sayyid Ali
Mir Sayyid Ali (, Tabriz, 1510 – 1572) was a Persian miniature painter who was a leading artist of Persian miniatures before working under the Mughal dynasty in India, where he became one of the artists responsible for developing the style of Mughal painting, under Emperor Akbar. Family Born in Tabriz, Mir Sayyid Ali was the son of artist Mir Musavvir. Historian and chronicler Qazi Ahmed said that the son was more talented than his father, but the impact of Mir Musavvir did influence his work. Early works Modern research suggests that Mir Sayyid Ali took part in the illustration of the famous ''Shahnameh'' of Shah Tahmasp created in 1525–1548 for Shah Tahmasp I (1514–1576). Two miniatures in it are attributed to Sayyid Ali's. He was also involved in the creation of lavish illustrations for the manuscript of the ''Khamsa of Nizami'' ("Five poems") created by the best artists of the Shah's ''kitabhane'' in 1539–1543 by order of Shah Tahmasp. Of the 14 miniatures his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abd Al-Samad
'Abd al-Ṣamad or Khwaja 'Abd-us-Ṣamad was a 16th century painter of Persian miniatures who moved to India and became one of the founding masters of the Mughal miniature tradition, and later the holder of a number of senior administrative roles. 'Abd's career under the Mughals, from about 1550 to 1595, is relatively well documented, and a number of paintings are authorised to him from this period. From about 1572 he headed the imperial workshop of the Emperor Akbar and "it was under his guidance that Mughal style came to maturity".Grove It has recently been contended by a leading specialist, Barbara Brend, that Samad is the same person as Mirza Ali, a Persian artist whose documented career seems to end at the same time as Abd al-Samad appears working for the Mughals. Mirza Ali Mirza Ali's name first appears in a famous manuscript of the '' Khamsa of Nizami'', now British Library Oriental 2265, which is dated March 1543. According to Stuart Cary Welch, there are only three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aqa Mirak
Aqa Mirak ( Persian: آقا میرک) (fl. 1520 – Qazvin, 1576) was a Persian illustrator and painter. Life Aqa Mirak was a painter, purveyor and companion to the Safavid shah Tahmasp I and was well known in contemporary circles. Initially living in Tabriz, he traveled and lived in Mashhad between 1555 and 1565, and Qazvin from 1565 until his death. Works The contemporary chronicler Dust Muhammad mentioned that Aqa Mirak along with Mir Musavvir did wall paintings for Prince Sam Mirza's palace in Tabriz and illustrations for royal manuscripts including the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, a superb copy of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ('Book of kings') and Nizami's Khamsa ('Five poems'). Qazi Ahmad wrote that Aqa Mirak "had no peer in artistic design and was an incomparable painter, very clever, enamoured of his art, a bon vivant, an intimate f the Shahand a sage". A manuscript of the Khamsa done between 1539 and 1543 has four illustrations bearing attributions to Aqa Mirak. Dickson and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Al-Din Bihzad , Australian Malaysian singer
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Kamal may refer to: *Kamal (name), a given name and surname with multiple origins **Kamal (director) (Kamaluddin Mohammed Majeed), Indian film director **Kamal Haasan (born 1954), or Kamal, Indian actor, filmmaker, singer and politician *Kamal (navigation), a navigational instrument for measuring latitude *Kamal, Jhapa, a rural municipality in Nepal *Kamal, Kalideres, a village in Indonesia *Alfa Romeo Kamal, an SUV by Alfa Romeo *Kamal, a race of snow demons from the continent Akavir in ''The Elder Scrolls''; also the name of their nation See also *Kamala (other) *Kamali (other) *Kamalia (other) *Kamli (other) *Kamahl Kandiah Kamalesvaran (; born 13 November 1934), better known by his stage name Kamahl, is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. He has been in the Australian music industry over for 70 years and has made some memorable TV and fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharaf Al-Din Ali Yazdi
Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi or Sharif al-Din Ali’ Yazdi (; died 1454, Yazd), also known by his pen name Sharaf, was a 15th-century Persian scholar who authored several works in the arts and sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, enigma, literature such as poetry, and history. The '' Zafarnama'', a life of Timur, is his most famous work. Sharif al-Din was born in the city of Yazd, Iran in the 1370s. He devoted much of his life to scholarship, furthering his education in Syria and Egypt until Timur's death in 1405. As a young man, he was a teacher in his native city of Yazd and a close companion of the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (1405–47) and his son Ibrahim Sultan. In 1442/43 he became the close advisor of the governor of Iraq, Mirza Sultan Muhammad, who lived in the city of Qom Qom (; ) is a city in the Central District of Qom County, Qom province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is the seventh largest metropolis and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrett Zafarnama
The Garrett ''Zafarnama'' (or ''Baltimore Zafarnama'' or ''Zafarnama'' of Sultan Husayn Mirza) is an early manuscript of the ''Zafarnama'' (''Book of Victories'') by Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi now in the Johns Hopkins University Library in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The manuscript has twelve Persian miniatures, in six double page spreads, and was made around 1467-8, possibly in Herat. The colophon states that the manuscript was the work of "the most humble Shir Ali," who was a popular scribe in his day. It was believed by the author of a later Mughal inscription that the six illustrations were painted by the renowned artist, Kemal a-Din Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, and the manuscript was one of the treasures of the Mughal Imperial library under Jahangir. However, modern scholars consider this attribution unlikely; Behzad would have been improbably young for such an important commission at the time. Several versions of the Zafarnama of Timur exist, however out of the versions written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khamsa Of Nizami
The ''Khamsa'' (, 'Quintet' or 'Quinary', from Arabic) or ''Panj Ganj'' (, 'Five Treasures') is the main and best known work of Nizami Ganjavi. Description The ''Khamsa'' is in five long narrative poems: * '' Makhzan-ol-Asrâr'' (, 'The Treasury or Storehouse of Mysteries'CHARLES-HENRI DE FOUCHÉCOUR, "IRAN:Classical Persian Literature" in ''Encyclopædia Iranica''), 1163 (some date it 1176) * ''Khosrow o Shirin'' (, 'Khosrow and Shirin'), 1177–1180 * ''Leyli o Majnun'' (, ' Layla and Majnun'), 1192 * '' Eskandar-Nâmeh'' (, 'The Book of Alexander'), 1194 or 1196–1202 * '' Haft Peykar'' (, 'The Seven Beauties'), 1197 The first of these poems, '' Makhzan-ol-Asrâr'', was influenced by Sanai's (d. 1131) monumental ''Garden of Truth''. The four other poems are medieval romances. Khosrow and Shirin, Bahram-e Gur, and Alexander the Great, who all have episodes devoted to them in Ferdowsi's ''Shahnameh'', appear again here at the center of three of four of Nezami's narrative poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahnameh
The ''Shahnameh'' (, ), also transliterated ''Shahnama'', is a long epic poem written by the Persian literature, Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (two-line verses), the ''Shahnameh'' is one of the world's longest epic poems, and the longest epic poem created by a single author. It tells mainly the Persian mythology, mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest of Persia, Muslim conquest in the seventh century. Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the greater Greater Iran, region influenced by Persian culture such as Armenia, Dagestan, Georgia (country), Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic. The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language. It is regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of the ethno-national cultural ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
