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An ornamental silver Rupee of Akbar with inscriptions of the Islamic declaration of faith; the declaration reads: There is no god except Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Silver Rupee struck in the name of Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, minted in Ahmadabad, Ilahi type coin with having the regnal year 47.
The Dīn-i Ilāhī (Persian: دین الهی, lit. ' Religion of God '), [2] known during its time as Tawḥīd-i-Ilāhī (Persian: توحید الهی, lit. ' Oneness of God ') or Divine Faith, [3] was a short lived syncretic religion propounded by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582.
Govardhan, Emperor Jahangir visiting the ascetic Jadrup, c. 1616–1620 [1]. Mughal painting is a South Asian style of painting on paper made in to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums (), originating from the territory of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.
The Gulshan album was an early project of the cultured Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–1627). [7] Based on internal inscriptions, the collection was probably begun about 1599, while Jahangir was still Prince Salim, governor of Allahabad and son of the ageing Emperor Akbar, and continued till about 1609. [6]
From the early 17th century, plainer round haloes appear in portraits of Mughal Emperors and subsequently Rajput and Sikh rulers; [11] despite the more local precedents art historians believe the Mughals took the motif from European religious art, though it expresses a Persian idea of the God-given charisma of kingship that is far older. [20]
This mosque was built as a Jami mosque for those attending the court. [11] Construction began in 1611 and lasted until 1614. [12] The mosque remained frequented for prayer by the Mughal nobility and the common man alike for more than two hundred years until it turned into a gunpowder factory.
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
The tomb, within a garden, is in a late version of the style of earlier Mughal imperial tombs, most famously the Taj Mahal, with inside "eight paradises" (hasht bihisht) or eight rooms around the main chamber under the dome, and a garden divided into four parts outside. This was the first time someone outside the immediate imperial Mughal ...