| Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings | |
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| Artist | Bichitr |
| Year | c. 1615 – c. 1618 |
| Medium | Gouache, gold and ink on paper |
| Movement | Mughal miniature |
| Subject | |
| Location | Freer Gallery of Art |
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings is a Mughal miniature painting by the Indian artist Bichitr for the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, dated to c. 1615–1618.[1][2][3] It is situated in the Freer Gallery of Art.
It depicts the emperor, seated upon a throne in the form of an hourglass, handing a book to a Sufi saint, while the Ottoman sultan and the king of England look on. The artist Bichitr himself is pictured in the bottom-left corner of the image, in a self-insert.[2][4]
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