Iltifat Khan
Mughal nobleman
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Murad Khan, also Sultan Murad Mirza Iltifat Khan and Mirza Mukarram Khan Safavi, often simply Iltifat Khan, was a son of Rustam Mirza Safavi, a noble of Safavid ancestry at the court of the Mughal Empire. Rustam Mirza Safavi, at the age of sixteen, had married a noblewoman from the prominent Shaykhavand tribe in 1581.[3]
| Iltifat Khan | |
|---|---|
| |
| Born | Murad Mirza |
| House | Safavid dynasty |
| Father | Rustam Mirza Safavi |
Murad Khan received the title of "Iltifat Khan" from the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.[4] He then received the title of "Mukarram Khan" in the 27th year of the reign of Shah Jahan, circa 1655.[4] Iltifat Khan is said to have been well-connected at the Mughal court, through his marriage and the marriages of his daughters.[5] He married the daughter of the Mughal notable 'Abdur-Rahim Khan-i Khanan.[4]
His fine, realistic, portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the result of Akbar's insistence on the creation of life-like depictions, in contradiction with the precepts of religious orthodoxy.[5]
Iltifat Khan took really retirement and died in Patna in 1657,[5] or in 1669.[4]
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Notes
- The drawing was probably made in preparations for a larger durbar scene in which the subject would be standing in a court assembly looking upward at the emperor (as suggested by his raised gaze.) A Devanagari inscription above identifies the subject and indicates that the drawing was in a Rajput collection for some time in history.[1]