# The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the <em>Tarikh-i-Alfi</em>

- By: Basawan
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1931.26/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/540ac1d58883c8c10adf60b391fef390.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.