SHAH JAHAN | Search

Accessibility help Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer

Showing results for SHAH JAHAN

Sort by

Viewing results 1‒25 of 38

Watches & Jewellery
Why the Mughal aesthetic isn’t a thing of the past
...Visually, there is no connection to the Mughals, but the cut is associated with Emperor Shah Jahan — fabled for building the Taj Mahal — who had hand-painted or enamelled portraits of himself with a “portrait...
October 6, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
South Asian miniatures in Milton Keynes — a chronicle of empire, power and art
...The Dutch artist Willem Schellinks copied another album (also studied by Rembrandt) for his drawing “Shah Jahan hawking” (c1657-60)....
November 6, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewAlbums
Kobo Town: Carnival of the Ghosts — calypso music with existential themes
...Then the narrator falls asleep, like a Port-of-Spain Piers Plowman, and dreams a vision of the dead, from Shah Jahan to Herod to Julius Caesar to “Genghis Khan and Casanova/arguing who was the greater conqueror...
August 5, 2022
FT SeriesTefaf Maastricht art fair 2020
Up-and-coming galleries to look out for at Tefaf
...The challenge is finding a new audience for pieces such as a 17th-century dagger made during the Mughal empire under the rule of Shah Jahan (the man behind the Taj Mahal)....
February 27, 2020
Stretch yourself: escape into a world of yoga and Pilates
The Story of Yoga — the truth about downward dogs
...Shah Jahan, responsible for the building of the Taj Mahal, razed temples in the holy city of Varanasi....
January 17, 2020
Asia and Australia holidays
The artisans of Lahore’s Walled City
...One of the world’s largest murals, it was built in the early 17th century and exquisitely decorated by hundreds of artisans under Shah Jahan....
June 21, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Art Market
High cost of museums spurs rise of the VR art gallery
...Offered for between £10,000 and £15,000, “Shah Jahan in the Time of Youth” (c1630-40) sold to its new Hong Kong-based buyer for £42,000 (£51,240 with fees)....
December 14, 2017
LexPersonal & Household Goods
Reckitt/Pfizer: shoulda, woulda, coulda Premium content
...Shah Jahan never got around to building a black marble Taj Mahal. Tony Blair could not persuade his chancellor to let Britain join the euro. Rakesh Kapoor has abandoned his attempt to buy Advil....
March 22, 2018
Life & Arts
Postcard from . . . the Taj Mahal
...Although there is an eternal quality to it, the Taj was built in the mid-1600s by the Muslim ruler Shah Jahan as a memorial tomb for his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died delivering their 14th child...
February 16, 2018
Amy Kazmin
The Taj Mahal is caught in a tug of war over Indian identity
...Commissioned in 1632 by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife, the graceful marble mausoleum draws millions of visitors annually, including most foreign dignitaries and tourists passing through...
December 4, 2017
Miranda Green
Opinion today: Fixing the roof
...Each time it looked as though Islam could be swallowed up in the Hindu melting pot, there was a strong reaction — as when Aurangzeb (Shah Jahan's son) took over and killed his brother (Dara Shikoh) who was...
December 6, 2017
FT Magazine
The Koh-i-Noor: the world’s most infamous diamond
...According to Marvi, the Koh-i-Noor was then attached to the head of one of the peacocks on Shah Jahan’s Peacock Throne....
June 16, 2017
Nilanjana Roy
Creatures of habit: how I fell in love with miniature art
...Some years ago, I’d been gifted a copy of the famous Padshahnama paintings, a collection of 44 rare works from the time of Shah Jahan....
February 7, 2017
beyondbricsOil
Guest post: Zanzibar and Tanzania vie over oil reserves
...By Angela Mndolwa and Shah Jahan Khandokar, Norton Rose Fulbright Huge natural gas discoveries in East Africa, attracting global interest and investment in recent years, have given rise to complex and politically...
March 10, 2015
Life & Arts
Iran — by luxury train
...The city’s central square, the Naqsh-e Jahan (“image of the world”), is surrounded by two exquisitely tiled mosques, cloistered walkways and the Ali Qapu palace....
December 5, 2014
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
FT Photo DiaryWorld
Clean sweep for the Taj Mahal
...The Taj Mahal, a Unesco Heritage site, was built in 1631 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal and attracts tens of thousands of tourists every year....
June 3, 2013
Life & Arts
Why world’s great buildings needed inequality, vanity and wealth
...The only thing that matched the personal grief of the Emperor Shah Jahan at the death of his wife Arjumand Banu (or Mumtaz Mahal) in 1631 was his budget for architecture....
August 2, 2013
Letter
Fighting hurts more than extravagance
...But Shah Jahan and his Taj Mahal should not get all the blame for Mogul decay....
November 25, 2012
Life & Arts
Kabul’s hidden gardens offer Afghans haven from war
...Jahan enclosed it....
September 13, 2013
John Kay
The monumental folly of rent-seeking
...One needs only a little imagination to see parallels with the court of Shah Jahan....
November 20, 2012
Life & Arts
India’s ruthless aesthetes
...Babur’s court was unusually splendid, and laid the foundations of the great flowering of the Mughal arts in the later reigns of Akbar and Shah Jahan....
December 7, 2012
Letter
Generations of rent-seeking have blunted our economy
...Sir, In “Learn from the Moguls: rent-seeking will destroy your empire” (November 21) John Kay did not need to refer to a foreign ruler such as the Mogul, Shah Jahan, for an example of rent-seeking activities...
November 25, 2012
Global Economy
India’s Singh stands by Mars mission
...Giving his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the 17th century, Mr Singh said: “This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step for us in...
August 15, 2012
Life & Arts
Did the Raj mar the Taj?
...By 1900, surely, the gardens had become overgrown and messy in a way which their Mogul founder, Shah Jahan, would also not have wanted....
February 17, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Art and Patronage
...And history remembers the great patrons – whatever the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan did during his reign, for good or ill, pales against the light of his creation of the Taj Mahal....
November 26, 2010

Previous pagePage 1 of 2Next page