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The Hamzanama (Persian/Urdu: حمزهنامه Hamzenâme, lit. ' Epic of Hamza ' ) or Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (Persian/Urdu: داستان امیر حمزه , Dâstân-e Amir Hamze , lit. ' Adventures of Amir Hamza ' ) narrates the legendary exploits of Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib , an uncle of Muhammad .
The Akbar Hamzanama (also known as Akbar's Hamzanama) is an enormous illustrated manuscript, ... Early Mughal painting, Harvard University Press, 1987, ...
Mughal painting is a South Asian style of painting on paper ... between 1562 and 1577 the atelier worked on an illustrated manuscript of the Hamzanama consisting ...
Another early production by that school of miniature painting was the Akbar Hamzanama manuscript, which according to the court historian Badayuni was started in 1567 and completed in 1582. The Hamzanama , an epic Persian account of Amir Hamza, an uncle of the Prophet, were illustrated by Mir Sayyid Ali .
Self-portrait by Mir Sayyid Ali, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1550 Mir Sayyid Ali (Persian: میرسید علی, 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.
Tutinama (Persian: طوطینامه), literal meaning "Tales of a Parrot", is a 14th-century series of 52 stories in Persian.The work remains well-known largely because of a number of lavishly illustrated manuscripts, especially a version containing 250 miniature paintings commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 1550s.
Umar Defeats a Dragon is a page from a Mughal Illuminated manuscript illustrating an episode from the Hamzanama. The page size is 55 x 70 cm. The page size is 55 x 70 cm. It is in the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna , Vienna.
Barbad Plays for Khusraw, Khamsa of Nizami, British Library, Oriental 2265, 1539–43, inscribed Mirza Ali at bottom left. '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.