The Survey of Art make Mourakha in the Mughal empire of India (With emphasis on Golshan Mourakha Related to Jahangir era)

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Department of Art, Faculty of Art And Architecture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

10.22051/pgr.2025.49174.1307

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A Muraqae is a collection of individual pieces of calligraphy and painting that various arts have been used in their construction and assembly and the creation of an integrated collection. The collection and production of these collections in Iran began in the Timurid period and continued until the end of the Safavid era; however, the most important of these works did not emerge in Iran but from the tomb-carving workshops of India, especially during the Jahangir period; the main issue in this research is to identify the characteristics of Muraqaes of the Jahangir period (with emphasis on the Golshan Muraqae) and also to examine the aspects of distinguishing the Muraqae-making process in the Jahangir period from the Safavid period in Iran. The type of research is descriptive-analytical and the study sample is the Golshan Muraqae as the most important existing morgue from the Jahangir period. The required information was obtained through library methods as well as observation of documents and in particular direct observation of the Golshan Muraqae collection preserved in the Golestan Palace complex. The data analysis was also conducted qualitatively. The results of this study, while emphasizing the important position of the art of Muraqae-making in the era of Jahangir, introduce it to us as the main activity of court artists of this period, so that many of the features of book decoration of the era of Jahangir can only be identified by examining the Muraqae-making of this period. On the other hand, the abundance of works in the Muraqae-making of this period and their stylistic and thematic diversity, as well as the aesthetic importance of the margins added to the Muraqae-making pieces, are among the most important aspects of their distinction from contemporary Iranian Muraqae-making.

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