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The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the <em>Tarikh-i-Alfi</em>
ca. 1592 - 1594
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W (painting - verso): 40.7 × 21.5 cm (16 × 8 7/16 in)
- Culture
- Muslims
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
The Emperor Akbar commissioned the writing of the Tarikh-i-Alfi, (The History of a Thousand Years), to celebrate the year 1000 (1591-92) on the Muslim calendar. The manuscript probably contained hundreds of paintings, but only about thirty survive today.
