Afḍal al-Ḥusaynī

by Farhad, Massumeh

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Afḍal (Afżal) al-Ḥusaynī was a Ṣafavid artist whose career probably began during the reign of Shāh ʿAbbās I (996–1038/1587–1629). He was still active during the early years of the reign of ʿAbbās II (1052–77/1642–66). Most of his paintings are signed “Afḍal al-Ḥusaynī,” but a few bear the name “Mīr Afḍal al-Tūnī.” Like other painters of the first half of the eleventh/seventeenth-century, Afḍal worked both on single-page compositions, created for albums, and on illustrated manuscripts. Most of h…

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Afḍal (Afżal) al-Ḥusaynī was a Ṣafavid artist whose career probably began during the reign of Shāh ʿAbbās I (996–1038/1587–1629). He was still active during the early years of the reign of ʿAbbās II (1052–77/1642–66). Most of his paintings are signed “Afḍal al-Ḥusaynī,” but a few bear the name “Mīr Afḍal al-Tūnī.” Like other painters of the first half of the eleventh/seventeenth-century, Afḍal worked both on single-page compositions, created for albums, and on illustrated manuscripts. Most of his album

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei248

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eng Islam

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Farhad, Massumeh

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