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Tutinama, the Glossary

Tutinama, literal meaning "Tales of a Parrot", is a 14th-century series of 52 stories in Persian.^[1]

Abd al-Samad

'Abd al-Ṣamad or Khwaja 'Abd-us-Ṣamad was a 16th century painter of Persian miniatures who moved to India and became one of the founding masters of the Mughal miniature tradition, and later the holder of a number of senior administrative roles.

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Akbar

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.

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Akbarnama

The Akbarnama (اکبرنامه), is the official chronicle of the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor, commissioned by Akbar himself and written by his court historian and biographer, Abul Fazl. Tutinama and Akbarnama are 16th-century Indian books, 16th-century illuminated manuscripts, Indian manuscripts, Islamic illuminated manuscripts and Mughal art.

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Śukasaptati

Śukasaptati, or Seventy tales of the parrot, is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit. Tutinama and Śukasaptati are Erotic literature, Erotic short story collections, Fantasy anthologies, Indian fairy tales, Indian folklore, Indian legends, Indian literature, Indian short story collections and Sexuality in India.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Budaun

Budaun (romanised: Badāʾūn or Badāyūn, pronounced bədaːjuː) is a medieval city and headquarters of Budaun district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Chester Beatty Library

The Chester Beatty Library, now known as the Chester Beatty, is a museum and library in Dublin.

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Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Fable

Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

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Fatehpur Sikri

Fatehpur Sikri is a town in the Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib

Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (حَمْزَة إبْن عَبْد ٱلْمُطَّلِب)Muhammad ibn Saad.

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Hamzanama

The Hamzanama (Persian/Urdu: italic Hamzenâme) or Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (Persian/Urdu: italic, Dâstân-e Amir Hamze) narrates the legendary exploits of Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, an uncle of Muhammad. Tutinama and Hamzanama are 16th-century Indian books, Indian manuscripts, Islamic illuminated manuscripts and Mughal art.

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Harem

Harem (lit) refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Humayun

Nasir al-Din Muhammad (6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), commonly known by his regnal name Humayun, was the second Mughal emperor, who ruled over territory in what is now Eastern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Northern India, and Pakistan from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to his death in 1556.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Jahangir

Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 till his death in 1627.

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Jahangirnameh

Jahangirnameh (جهانگیرنامه "Story of Jahangir") is an epic poem in the Persian language which relates the story of Jahangir son of Rostam.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kathak

Kathak (Devanagari: कथक) is one of the nine major forms of Indian classical dance.

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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire

The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.

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Malwa

Malwa is a historical region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin.

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Milo C. Beach

Milo Cleveland Beach is an American art historian and the former director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art.

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Mir Sayyid Ali

Mir Sayyid Ali (میرسید علی, Tabriz, 1510 – 1572) was a Persian miniature painter who was a leading artist of Persian miniatures before working under the Mughal dynasty in India, where he became one of the artists responsible for developing the style of Mughal painting, under Emperor Akbar.

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Mughal painting

Mughal painting is a South Asian style of painting on paper confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums (muraqqa), originating from the territory of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. Tutinama and Mughal painting are Islamic illuminated manuscripts and Mughal art.

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Myna

The mynas (also spelled mynah) are a group of birds in the starling family (Sturnidae).

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Nakhshabi

Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi was a 14th-century Persian physician and Sufi living in India.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Persian miniature

A Persian miniature (Persian: نگارگری ایرانی negârgari Irâni) is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. Tutinama and Persian miniature are Islamic illuminated manuscripts.

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Rajput

Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thakur, is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Seven Wise Masters

The Seven Wise Masters (also called the Seven Sages or Seven Wise Men) is a cycle of stories of Sanskrit, Persian or Hebrew origins. Tutinama and Seven Wise Masters are Fantasy anthologies, Indian fairy tales, Indian folklore, Indian legends, Indian literature and Indian short story collections.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutinama

Tutinama, the Glossary

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See also

16th-century Indian books

British Library oriental manuscripts

Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Erotic literature

Erotic short story collections

Indian manuscripts

Indian short story collections

Islamic illuminated manuscripts

Mughal art

Sexuality in India

References