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The campaign against China after Timur's death in 1405. Zafarnama, 1436

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English: The campaign against China after Timur's death in 1405. Zafarnama, 1436

"The miniature shows the cavalry vanguard on its way across the steppes. The rider in the fore is beating a pair of drums, the next one is playing a wind instrument, and the two riders at the back are carrying the army banners with golden standards and colored yak tails.

According to the text around the miniature, it illustrates a short-lived effort to invade China, after the death of Timur in 1405, under the direction of Ibrahim Sultan, later the patron of the Zafarnama manuscript. The text on the back of the page uses a mixture of poetry and prose to relate the story of how Ibrahim’s troops reach Utrar in present-day Kazakhstan before the succession dispute among Timur’s heirs makes it impossible to continue towards China.

The piece was originally the left half of a double miniature. The right half shows a royal rider under a decorated parasol.(Note 1) The rider was earlier assumed to be Ibrahim Sultan’s father, Shah Rukh (1377-1447). Judging from the text, however, it is more likely that the rider is Ibrahim Sultan as an adult, although he was only 11 years old in 1405.

Note 1: Eleanor G. Sims: “Ibrahim-Sultan’s illustrated Zafar-nameh of 839/1436” in Islamic art, 4, 1991, p. 194, fig. 36 and 37. The right half of the double miniature is now in the Reza Abbasi-museum in Teheran." in David Collection
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