El-khidr Miniatures at the Mughal Indian School from the 11th/17th century to the early 12th/18th century by nawal gaber

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The Gemstones Through The writing of Mughal Indian Emperor Jahangir "Tuzuk Jahangiri (1014-1037A.H /1605-1627 A.D) by Nagah Mohamed, Raafat Al Nabrawy, Azza Abdel Moty

“…Egypt and the good garnet from Yemen. Some of the Mughal emperors mastered this craft and produced many artifacts in their own hands, including the son of the Mughal emperor, Jahangir Shah Jahan. …”
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Islam et paysage au xvie siècle by Michèle Constans

“…The memories of first mughal emperor Babur express landscape and nature admiration, and tell about gardens and spatial planning projects that tresspass the quadripartite walled gardens ; it seems that islamics Timurids and Mughals had a landscape culture in visu and in situ.…”
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LAS REFORMAS RELIGIOSAS DE AKBAR Y SU RELIGIÓN PERSONAL by Roberto E. García

“…Abstract This article focuses on the figure of the Mughal Emperor Akbar (1542-1605) and on the motivation behind his religious reforms. …”
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The sepoy army in India and its role in the revolution of 1857 ADح6 by إلهام كاظم

“… The commercial expansion of the English East India Company in the Indian subcontinent (1), as a result of the concessions granted to them by the Mughal Emperor Jehan Kerr (1605-1627) (2), and its acquisition of commercial centers in Surat in 1608 and in Masulipatam in 1611, which coincided with With the political trends that outweighed the economic motives and the issuance of the royal decree in 1661 that expanded the powers of the company and authorized it to declare war or peace with any non-Christian prince in the name of the crown (3). …”
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Ẓafarnamah: A Glimpse into the Text and its Historical and Intellectual Context by Leila Chamankhah

“…Ẓafarnāmah (Book of Victory), written by the tenth Sikh leader, Guru Gobind Singh (d. 1708), in 1705, about the Mughal emperor of India, Aurangzeb (d. 1706). It is widely considered evidence of a religious leader's spiritual victory over a tyrant who not only broke his Koranic oath (and, consequently, fell from his status as a good believer). …”
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Mughal jihad : blood, soul and brain by Mohammad Firdaus Sulaiman

“…Specifically, I focus on the first four Mughal emperors, namely Babur, Humayun, Akbar and Jahangir in chronological order. …”
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Fit for an emperor: Akbar’s luxury manuscript of the Baharistan of Jami and its conservation by Stiglitz, M, Delattre, C, McLees, F

“…This paper discusses the conservation treatment and technical study of an exquisitely decorated copy of the Baharistan of Jami, produced c. 1595 for the Mughal emperor Akbar. 19th century repairs and rebinding had contributed to a deteriorating condition, rendering it inaccessible. …”

Speaking Truth to Power: Exploring Guru Nanak’s <i>Bābar-vāṇī</i> in Light of the <i>Baburnama</i> by Pashaura Singh

“…This essay offers in-depth analysis of Guru Nanak’s works, collectively known as the <i>Bābar-vāņī</i> (“arrow-like utterances concerning Babur”), in the context of the memoirs of the first Mughal emperor Babur (1483–1530). It extends the number of works in the collection from a ‘fixed’ assemblage of ‘four’ to ‘nine,’ making it an open collection that dynamically responds to the specific questions raised by historians about Guru Nanak’s encounter with Babur. …”
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Rulers of Lahore During the Region of Sultan Shah Jahan (1037 - 1076AH/ 1627 - 1666AD): An Analytical Study by Muzaffar Ali Bin Lutf Ali, Muhammad Nawaz

“…subcontinent Hindustan has own historical background, and its some cities have main role and part in his history Lahore is one of them it has great part in civilization and history of subcontinent being a capital in different periods some while it ruined and some it goes up and paid main role in history being a main entrance city to famous and main cities which had not less importance in history of subcontinent likely ,Delhi Agra Mumbai, but overall it had special time when the great 5th Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan took a big part in its progress in civilization policies and specially in art and architecture . as he were crazy about buildings and archaeological work He was born in Lahore so he concentrates at Lahore much more than other cites so its is necessary to know briefly that was Lahore in real ,before in every government governor have main role in implementation of agendas and theology or strategy , in this research we will see how the governors of Lahore took part in building of city, as making them main cultural ,as Shah jaha's vision,…”
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Sanskrit Recension of Persian Astronomy by Anuj Misra

“… In the history of exchanges between Islamicate and Sanskrit astral sciences, Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu (c. early 1630s), composed at the court of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1628─58), is among the earliest examples of a Persian astronomical text translated into Sanskrit. …”
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Towards Inclusive India: State Legislation for Inter-Faith CoExistence during the Period of Emperor Akbar by Dr. Mamoona Yasmeen, Dr. Waleed Khan

“… The current research focuses on the state legislation during the period of Mughal Emperor Akbar, his attempt to reconcile religion and state legislation and his practical efforts to bring inter-faith co-existence in India of that time. …”
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Calendars, Compliments, and Computations by Anuj Misra, Jean Arzoumanov

“…Among such texts were two seventeenth-century astronomical table-texts, Mullā Farīd's Persian Zīj-i Šāh Jahānī and its Sanskrit translation in Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu, both produced at the court of the Mughal Emperor Šāh Jahān. In this paper, we present, for the very first time, a comparative survey of the canon (text) of these two works to reveal the intimacy between the translated Sanskrit and its Persian original. …”
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The Backlash in Delhi: British Treatment of the Mughal Royal Family following the Indian “Sepoy Mutiny” of 1857 by Islam, Arshad

“…It was a war fought by the common people, men and women, soldiers and chieftains alike under the banner of the last Mughal Emperor of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar (reigned 1837–1857). …”
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Bilingual lexicography in the Indian sub-continent. A historical perspective of English-Hindustani/Urdu dictionary writing by Ilyas Saleem, M

“…The British established a transit trading post in the coastal city of Surat in 1608, where East India Company opened its first factory in 1612 after royal patronage was granted by the then Mughal Emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) had already established itself in Cochin on the Malabar Coast in 1605. …”

Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (971/1564-1034/1624): A socio religious reformer of Mughal India by Islam, Arshad

“…Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi,also known as Mujaddid-i alf-i thani,was a well-known Sufi of the Naqshbandi order in 16th-17th century Mughal India.The period during which he lived has been seen by many as a challenging period for the Muslim intelligentsia, in the wake of numerous religious experiments carried out by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605).The religious classes, perceiving these experiments as attacks on Islam, tried to find politically pragmatic solutions to deal with the cir cum stances.Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi also sensed the danger ahead and tried to instill an intellectual awakening among Muslims.He not only discussed socio-religious and political matters, but also tried to in culcate the Islamic ethos and restore Islamic shariah in everyday lives.He was well versed in Islamic sciences and tasawwuf (Sufism), and as a result of his efforts to awaken Muslims from their political and religious stupor, he came to be known as the Revivalist of the Second Millennium(Mujaddid-i alf-i thani).He attempted to halt the waning of the influence of the Muslim religious classes in India by trying to enact an Islamic renaissance and the implementation of a more orthodox interpretation of Islamic shariah than that espoused by the Mughal authorities.He had unique ideas for transforming the ruling elite and the society.His thoughts and the politico-religious ideas of renewal (tajdid) and revival of the prophetic tradition (ihya al-sunnah) are found in his Maktubat,Ithbatal-Nubuwah, Radd-i Rawafid and Ma’arifLaduniyah and other writings.This paper examines Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi’s political and religious thoughts and ideas from his Arabic and Persian writings, including secondary works in Urdu and English.…”
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States and Local Legal Cultures in Medieval Islam: A comparative study of Akbar’s Mughal Rule and Sultan Agung’s Mataram in 16th and 17th Century by Noor Achmad, Nanang Nurcholis

“…This study seeks to expand the horizon of existing literatures on the dialectic of religion, legal culture and local dynamics by comparing two great Muslim rulers in two different parts of the world in the first Islamic millennium: Mughal Emperor Akbar and Mataram’s Sultan Agung. It specifically aims to analyze historical accounts on the dynamic relations between Islamic norms and local culture with corresponding results of distinctive ways of ruling by these two great rulers. …”
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The rekhta of architecture: the development of ‘Islamic’ art history in Urdu, c.1800-1950 by Nile Green

“…In apt architectural metonymy, ‘Rekhta’ was renamed ‘Urdu’ in homage to the Urdu-e Mu‘ala (or Red Fort of Delhi), revealing a conceptual link between the palace of the last Mughal emperors and Urdu as its language based on the centrality of buildings to Indo-Muslim cultural memory. …”
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EAR DAGGER FROM THE 14TH TO THE 19TH CENTURIES: AN ARTISTIC FUNCTIONAL STUDY OF SAMPIES by Hamada THABET, Rabea Sayed

“…It was introduced with a specific pattern in India during the reign of the Mughal emperors. Furthermore, it had several functions not limited to war. …”
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Characteristics And Influences Of Mughal Islamic Ornamentation Of The 17th Century: A Case Study Of Wazir Khan And Badshahi Mosque by Zahra, Fatima

“…It specifically explored the influences of the 17th-century Western and Eastern art forms on the ornamentation of the Wazir Khan and Badshahi Mosques built by Mughal emperors. The two mosques are not only significant for the study just because they were constructed during the Mughal period under Shahjahan and Aurangzeb emperors, who are famous for their architectural interests, but also because they are on the UNESCO world heritage tentative List from 1993. …”
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