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Shahjahannama
The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan receives Safavid ambassadors in the year 1636, from a Padshahnama.
AuthorInayat Khan
CountryMughal Empire (India)
LanguagePersian
GenreBiography
Set in17th century Mughal India
TextShahjahannama at Wikisource

The Shahjahannama (Persian: شاه جهان نما; lit. 'Chronicle of Shah Jahan') is a genre of works written about the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Padshahnama is a term for lavishly illuminated versions.

A significant work in this genre was written by the historian Inayat Khan in the 17th century.[1][2][3] The first complete English translation from Persian appeared in the 19th century by A. R. Fuller.[4]

References

  1. ^ Kani, Wak (1997). "The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: An Abridged History". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 7 (3). jstor.org: 466–468. doi:10.1017/S1356186300009652. JSTOR 25183432. S2CID 162937041.
  2. ^ Khan, Gulfishan. "Shahjahannama-". scribd.com. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Shah Jahan (1875)". 1875. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  4. ^ 'Inayat Khan; Wayne Edison Begley (1990). The Shah Jahan nama of 'Inayat Khan: an abridged history of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian : the nineteenth-century manuscript translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, add. 30,777). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-562489-2.

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