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| Keywords: 1494-Babur enthroned.png en The Memoirs of Babur or Baburnama are the work of the great-great-great-grandson of Timur Tamerlane Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur 1483-1530 The Baburnama tells the tale of the prince's struggle first to assert and defend his claim to the throne of Samarkand and the region of the Fergana Valley After being driven out of Samarkand in 1501 by the Uzbek Shaibanids he ultimately sought greener pastures first in Kabul and then in northern India where his descendants were the Moghul Mughal dynasty ruling in Delhi until 1858 The miniatures are from an illustrated copy of the Baburnama prepared for the author's grandson the Mughal Emperor Akbar It is worth remembering that the miniatures reflect the culture of the court at Delhi; hence for example the architecture of Central Asian cities resembles the architecture of Mughal India Nonetheless these illustrations are important as evidence of the tradition of exquisite miniature painting which developed at the court of Timur and his successors Timurid miniatures are among the greatest artistic achievements of the Islamic world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Illustrations of Mughals from the Baburnama 183-1530 http //warfare uphero com/Moghul/Baburnama/Baburnama htm Baburnama Painters of Babur PD-old-100 Baburnama Uploaded with UploadWizard Original upload log wikitable - - 2012-11-06 15 05 58 534 × 889 250517 bytes Baloo1000 <nowiki>User created page with UploadWizard</nowiki> | ||||
