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 6 Jun 2019 Rare Paintings
The Great Imambara of Asaf al-Daula, Lucknow - 1795

Watercolour of the Great Imambara of Asaf al-Daula, Lucknow, part of the Hyde collection by an anonymous artist working in the Murshidabad style in c. 1790-1800. Inscribed on the back in pencil and ink: 'Emaumbarree at Lucknow.'

Nawab Asaf ud-... Read More
 6 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
QANOON-E-ISLAM or the Customs of the Moosulmans of India : compromising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth till the hour of death.
By Jaffur Shurreef and Gerhard Andreas Herklots
Published by Parbury, Allen & Co., London - 1... Read More
 22 Sep 2018
A Muharram scene
Patna, 1807

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one depicts part of the Muharram ceremonies, which Muslims carry out in memory of Hasan and Hosein, grandsons of the Prophet Muhammed. Shiah Muslims regard them as his suc... Read More
 1 Oct 2017
Nawab Asaf al-Daula commemorating Muharram - 1812

Watercolour of the Nawab Asaf al-Daula, the Nawab of Lucknow, by an anonymous artist working in the Murshidabad style, part of the Nuqent Collection, c. 1812. Inscribed on back in English in ink: 'Lukhnou Nawab Asoofooddoala'; in' nagari' charact... Read More
 1 Oct 2017
Muharram festival procession at Varanasi - 1831

Watercolour painting of a Muharram festival procession at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, by James Prinsep (1799-1840). Inscribed on the reverse is: 'Procession of the Tazeeas during the Moohurram at the P'hatman a Moosulman Burial Ground - Benares'. This... Read More
 1 Oct 2017
Muharram festival, the ta'ziya in the Imambara - 1795

Watercolour drawing showing the Muharram festival, by an anonymous artist working in the Patna style, c. 1795 - 1800. Inscribed on the back of the drawing is: 'No.18. The Gift of E.E. Pote Esq. Elizath Collins. This is a Representation of the... Read More
 1 Oct 2017
The veneration of the standards during the Muharram Festival - 1795

Watercolour of the veneration of the standards during the Muharram Festival by an unknown artist, part of the Hyde Collection, c. 1790-1800.

The Muharram festival commemorates the popular saint Imam Husain, the Prophet Muhammad... Read More
 13 Jan 2014 Rare Paintings
The Muhamaddan festival of Muharram

From the book:
The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East - From the earliest times to the suppression of the Sepoy mutiny in 1859
By Edward Henry Nolan
Published by James S.Virtue, London - 1858
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 23 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
View of the Great Imambara and the Rumi Durwaza, from Moosah Bagh end of the city, Lucknow - 1860

This lithograph is taken from plate 26 of 'General Views of Lucknow' by Sir DS Dodgson.

The Great Imambara, which Dodgson described as the "architectural gem of Lucknow", has one of the largest... Read More
 20 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
A Muharram figure: A Muslim worshipper with chauri and sword standing in front of a tazia.

Varanasi, India

Date: ca.1830

Painting on mica

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 16 Dec 2011
Imambara Hosseini Dallan, Dacca - 1904

Photograph taken by Fritz Kapp in 1904 with a view of the Imambara Hussaini Dalan in Dacca (now Dhaka), overlooking the tank, part of an album of 30 prints from the Curzon Collection. Lord Curzon was Viceroy of India from 1899-1905. In February 1904, he t... Read More
 6 Dec 2011
Hindu Qaum aur Azadari
By Allama Saiyid Sibtul Hasan Fazil Hanswi
In Urdu.

This a book on the celebration of Muharram and commemoration of the the martyrs of Karbala by the non-Muslims in India, specially the Hindus. The work was written and published by the well known and the learned Shi'i scho... Read More
 6 Dec 2011 Rare Photographs
Muharram festival procession in Baroda - 1880

Photograph of a Muharram procession in Baroda (Vadodara) from the 'Album of portraits and views in Baroda' taken by an unknown photographer in c. 1880. The festival commemorates the popular saint Imam Husain, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson and the s... Read More
 6 Dec 2011 Rare Paintings
Great Imambara, Lucknow - 1870

View of the Central Hall from the courtyard photographed by John Edward Saché (1870s). Nawab Asaf ud-Daula of Awadh (r.1775-97), requested architect Kifayat-ullah to construct the Great Imambara in 1784 , for the purpose of celebrating the Muslim festival of Muharr... Read More
 6 Dec 2011 Rare Paintings
The Muharram Festival. Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Oudh, listening at night to the maulvi reading from the scriptures - 1795

Watercolour of the Muharram Festival, part of the Hyde collection, by an unknown artist working in the Murshidabad style, c. 1795. Inscribed on the back in pencil: 'The Nubob ... Read More
 5 Apr 2011 Rare Paintings
Lord Hastings' party in an elephant procession approaching the Rumi Darwaza in Lucknow - 1814

Watercolour of a procession reaching the Rumi Darwaza from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Cawnpore to Mohumdy Vol. IV' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15... Read More
 17 Feb 2011 Rare Paintings
The Muharram Festival - Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Oudh, listening at night to the maulvi reading from the scriptures - 1795

Watercolour of the Muharram Festival, part of the Hyde collection, by an unknown artist working in the Murshidabad style, c. 1795. Inscribed on the back in pencil: 'The Nub... Read More
 16 Feb 2011
An illuminated page from Wajid Ali Shah's divan of Urdu poetry, 1856

"WAJID 'ALI SHAH OF AWADH (R. 1847-56 AD), PEN-NAMED AKHTAR: DIWAN. AWADH, NORTHERN INDIA, DATED 1 MUHARRAM AH 1276/31 JULY 1856 AD. Poetry, manuscript on cream paper, 192 ff. plus 2fl, each with 11ll. of black nasta'liq in t... Read More
 28 Sep 2010 Rare Paintings
Dervishes Dancing before a Group of Muslim Divines
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, ca. 1760
India, Deccan region
Edwin Binney 3rd Collection

The small Persian inscription at the top of the painting identifies the scene: “Ecstatic Majlis of the Shaikhs of India”. A majlis is a nocturnal... Read More
 12 Aug 2010
Alif Allah Chambe Di Booti | Sultan Bahu

Sultan Bahu (Urdu:سلطان باہو) (ca 1628 - 1691) was a Muslim Sufi and saint, who founded the Sarwari Qadiri sufi order. Darbar Hazrat sultan Bahoo is located near Garh More city.

Sultan Bahu belonged to Awan tribe and was born in Anga, Soon Valley Sakesar... Read More