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The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his court. The Peacock Throne ( Hindustani: Mayūrāsana, Sanskrit: मयूरासन, Urdu: تخت طاؤس, Persian: تخت طاووس, Takht-i Tāvūs) was the imperial throne of Hindustan. The throne is named after the dancing peacocks at its rear and was the seat of the Mughal emperors of India from ...
Abbas I ( Persian: عباس یکم, romanized : ʿAbbās yekom; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (Persian: عباس بزرگ, romanized: ʿAbbās-e Bozorg ), was the fifth shah of Safavid Iran from 1588 to 1629. The third son of Shah Mohammad Khodabanda, he is generally considered one of the greatest ...
Unlike in some easier puzzles in other outlets, the number of words in the answer is not given in the clue—so a one-word clue can have a multiple-word answer. [ 26 ] The theme, if any, will be applied consistently throughout the puzzle; e.g., if one of the theme entries is a particular variety of pun, all the theme entries will be of that type.
In 1626, Shah Jahan's 13th son, Lutfallah, was born in Thatta. [15] The city was almost destroyed by a devastating storm in 1637. [ 16 ] As a token of gratitude for the hospitality he had received in the city while still a prince, Shah Jahan bestowed the Shah Jahan Mosque to the city in 1647 as part of the city's rebuilding efforts, although it ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
A daughter of Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din. Occupation. Poet. Jahan Malek Khatun ( Persian: جهان ملك خاتون, jahān malik khātūn) was an Injuid poet and princess. She wrote under pen name Jahān ( Persian: جهان, lit. 'World') and was a contemporary of the poet Hafez. [1]
Nur Jahan (lit. ' Light of the world '; 31 May 1577 – 18 December 1645), [2] born Mehr-un-Nissa was the twentieth wife and chief consort of the Mughal emperor Jahangir. More decisive and proactive than her husband, Nur Jahan is considered by certain historians to have been the real power behind the throne for more than a decade.
The Golestan Palace ( Persian: کاخ گلستان, Kākh-e Golestān ), also transliterated as the Gulistan Palace[ 1] and sometimes translated as the Rose Garden Palace from Persian language, [ 1][ 2] was built in the 16th century, renovated in the 18th century and finally rebuilt in 1865. It is the former official royal Qajar complex in Tehran .