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    • Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi, known as Firishta, Tarikh-i Firishta
      Jul. 06, 2017

      Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi, known as Firishta, Tarikh-i Firishta

      Est: £700 - £900

      Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi, known as Firishta, Tarikh-i Firishta , signed by Aref Shah Nuri Hosein Shahi, in Persian, illuminated manuscript on paper [Mughal India, dated to the 28th year of the reign of Muhammad Shah (1747 AD.)] Volume I only, 565 leaves (plus one endleaf), a few leaves misbound and later pagination incorrect in places, but apparently complete, single column, 17 lines in striking black nasta'liq, key words and phrases in red, single polychrome and gold illuminated head-piece opening the text, fol. 2 loose, a few small spots, worming throughout (mostly affecting margins), printed label pasted to upper pastedown, 310 by 180mm., later morocco-backed boards, extremities rubbed From the Mohamed Makiya collection, their 105/200 . Firishta (1520-1620) was born in Astarabad, Northern Iran, and moved to Ahmandgar in India where he studied alongside Prince Miran Husain Nizam Shah whom his father tutored. Their friendship saw Fihrista climb the social ranks rapidly and become captain of the guards in 1587. A few years later he moved Bijapur, where ruler Ibrahim Shah II recognised his scholarly abilities and implored Firishta to compile a history of India with emphasis on the history of Deccan dynasties, as no work thus far had given equal treatment to all regions of the subcontinent. The product of that was the Tarikh-i Firishta , also known as Gulshan-i Ibrahim , a monumental twelve-part history of India that was dedicated and handed to Ibrahim Shah II in 1606. The present volume is the first book of this historical anthology, dealing primarily with the Kings of Ghazni and Lahore.

      Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
    • - Three dervishes conversing in a landscape, signed by Muhammad Qasim (d.1659), Persia, Isfahan, circa 1630-50
      Apr. 01, 2009

      - Three dervishes conversing in a landscape, signed by Muhammad Qasim (d.1659), Persia, Isfahan, circa 1630-50

      Est: £8,000 - £12,000

      Ink and pencil heightened with blue and red on paper, depicting three figures sitting around a brazier within a grassy landscape with rabbits, laid down on an album page, the artist's signature on the bottle in the lower middle ground, ruled in gold

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