For the young emperor Akbar, a workshop led first by Mir Sayyid Ali and then Abd al-Samad illustrated the fantastical adventures of Amir Hamza, uncle of the Prophet, in some 1,400 large paintings on cotton, with the text on the back. It took about fifteen years. Only just over a hundred pages survive, among them this scene of the prophet Elijah rescuing Prince Nur ad-Dahr.
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Elijah strides across the water to pull the drowning prince from a river full of fish and sea creatures, below a dense, layered forest.
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