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Jehangir and the temporal astrolabe Lithographs from India this rendered him a heretic

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this rendered him a heretic

Both are intimately seated upon a small golden throne and Shah Jahan’s eldest and favourite son is seen turbaned

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Shah Jahan chose to link these symbols of peace and justice with divine sanction for his rule

The painting was created by Abu al-Hasan who was the son of Aqa Reza (a leading artist of the Persian Safavid Court who later took employment under Jehangir) of Herat in Safavid Iran

Jehangir and the temporal astrolabe Lithographs from India this rendered him a hereticThis is perhaps the largest painting to have emerged from the Mughal period. It shows emperor Jahangir whose name means world seizer, holding a globe in his right palm. It is believed that this globe was constructed by the metallurgist Muhammad Salih Tahtawi who was famed for the then impossible feat of constructing seamless hollow spheres, leaving no tell tale cavity or crease from its making. Seventeenth century astrolabe (astrolabe is an ancient

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