DOI issue:
Nr. 333 (February 1925)
DOI article:Comstock, Helen: The romance of Amir Hamzah
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0090
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BADI EMERGES FROM THE CHEST IN WHICH SHE HAS BEEN HIDDEN AND KILLS THE CONSPIRATORS
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE ROMANCE OF AMIR HAMZAH
In the Brooklyn Museum
coming. But their love of art was greater than steps of the library at Delhi and through more
their fear of the Prophet, and Akbar worked out than fifteen years of Akbar's lengthy reign. It
for himself a most elaborate, unorthodox creed, was this commission which resulted in the pictures
the "Divine Faith" which salved his conscience reproduced in this article, book illustrations for
for his disobedience. the Romance oj Amir Hamzah, the work of many
The two artists whom Humayun brought with artists, although the illumination is generally con-
him into India were Mir Sayyid Ali of Tabriz, a sidered to have been done by Mir Sayyid Ali while
pupil of Bihzad himself, and Kwajah Abdus the beautiful nastalicj in which the story is written
Samad, who excelled not only in painting but in on the back of each illustration is attributed by
calligraphy, which was considered superior to the Mr. Shirani, to whom the Indian section of the
art of painting. It was Humayun who gave to Victoria and Albert Museum submitted its par-
these artists a commission which occupied them ticular group of Hamzah miniatures for inspec-
and a number of their associates for many years, tion, to be the work of Kwajah Abdus Samad.
long after Humayun met his sudden death on the The illustrations for the Romance oj Amir
three fifty
FEBRUARY I 9 2 5
BADI EMERGES FROM THE CHEST IN WHICH SHE HAS BEEN HIDDEN AND KILLS THE CONSPIRATORS
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE ROMANCE OF AMIR HAMZAH
In the Brooklyn Museum
coming. But their love of art was greater than steps of the library at Delhi and through more
their fear of the Prophet, and Akbar worked out than fifteen years of Akbar's lengthy reign. It
for himself a most elaborate, unorthodox creed, was this commission which resulted in the pictures
the "Divine Faith" which salved his conscience reproduced in this article, book illustrations for
for his disobedience. the Romance oj Amir Hamzah, the work of many
The two artists whom Humayun brought with artists, although the illumination is generally con-
him into India were Mir Sayyid Ali of Tabriz, a sidered to have been done by Mir Sayyid Ali while
pupil of Bihzad himself, and Kwajah Abdus the beautiful nastalicj in which the story is written
Samad, who excelled not only in painting but in on the back of each illustration is attributed by
calligraphy, which was considered superior to the Mr. Shirani, to whom the Indian section of the
art of painting. It was Humayun who gave to Victoria and Albert Museum submitted its par-
these artists a commission which occupied them ticular group of Hamzah miniatures for inspec-
and a number of their associates for many years, tion, to be the work of Kwajah Abdus Samad.
long after Humayun met his sudden death on the The illustrations for the Romance oj Amir
three fifty
FEBRUARY I 9 2 5