At a glance
- Roles
- Historian
- Region
- South Asia
Summary
Abd al-Hamid Lahori wrote the most famous Padshah-nama, the official biography of Shah Jahan whose illustrated copy is at Windsor. He used the Padshah-nama of Muhammad Amin Qazwini, completed in 1646, for his first part, so, Milo Cleveland Beach notes, he cannot have begun his text before then. 1
From his text
Beach quotes his description of Shah Jahan's throne for the eighth regnal year to show that contemporary accounts disagree on the number and material of its columns, though all agree on the peacocks. 2
People and things also explored
Abbasid tin-glazed ware· Ahmadnagar painting· Proportional script and the six pens (al-aqlam al-sitta)· Arabesque· Bijapur painting· Broken cursive (New Style)· Deccani painting· Divani script
Sources
- Milo Cleveland Beach, The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India 1600–1660 (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978) , p. 76
- Milo Cleveland Beach, The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India 1600–1660 (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978) , p. 78
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Hamid Lahori”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-hamid-lahori/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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