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| Keywords: Hamza Burns Zarthust’s Chest and Shatters the Urn with his Ashes.jpg It took some 15 years to complete the Great Mughal Akbar ™s copy of the Hamza-nama which originally contained about 1400 miniatures This was a gigantic project in every respect a collaborative effort by Persian and Indian artists that is considered a pioneering work of early Mughal painting The book is a fictitious account of the life of Hamza the Prophet Muhammad ™s uncle Here we see Hamza in the process of burning and destroying the earthly remains of the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism called Zarthust in the manuscript Zarthust ™s granddaughter Manut who raises her hands in horror and the ugly women on the left are depicted as sorceresses ~ 1570 On cotton tabby from a copy of the Hamza-nama Miniature 68 × 51 4 cm David Collection museum Denmark object history credit line Formerly in the Art Institute of Chicago accession number Hamza-nama http //www davidmus dk/en/collections/islamic/dynasties/mughal-india/art/72-1998 PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Military history of the Mughal Empire Akbar's Hamzanama | ||||
