Akbar-nāmeh

work by Abu al-Faḍl ʿAllāmī

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discussed in biography

  • In Abū al-Faḍl ʿAllāmī: Memoirs, letters, and dispatches

    …Akbar and his ancestors, the Akbarnāma (The History of Akbar). It is the official chronicle of Akbar’s reign, containing 274 folios of text along with 116 illustrated folios and a single illuminated frontispiece. Written between 1590 and 1597, the manuscript is divided into three volumes. The first volume recounts the…

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