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The Hamzanama (Persian/Urdu: حمزه نامه Hamzenâme, Epic of Hamza) or Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (Persian/Urdu: داستان امیر حمزه Dâstâne Amir Hamze, "Adventures of Amir Hamza") narrates the legendary exploits of Amir Hamza, or Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, an uncle of Muhammad. Most of the stories are extremely fanciful, "a continuous series of romantic interludes, threatening events, narrow escapes, and violent acts". The Hamzanama chronicles the fantastic adventures of Hamza as he and his band of heroes fight against the enemies of Islam. The stories, from a long-established oral tradition, were written down in Persian, the language of the courts of Persianate societies, in multiple volumes presumably in the era of Mahmud of Ghazni. In the West, the work is best known for the enormous illustrated manuscript commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar about 1562. The text augmented the story, as traditionally told in dastan performances. The dastan (storytelling tradition) about Amir Hamza persists far and wide up to Bengal and Arakan, as the Mughal Empire controlled those territories. The longest version of the Hamzanama exists in Urdu and contains 46 volumes in approximately over 45,000 pages.

hamzanama dastan-e-amir storytelling

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  22. Titley, 189; Titley says "only just over one hundred of the paintings have survived", while the V&A says "about 140", but they are counting fragments. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/hamzanama/
  23. "British Museum - the prophet Elijah rescuing Hamza's nephew, Prince Nur ad-Dahr, a painting in gouache on cotton". https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/scene_from_hamzanama,_painting.aspx. 
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  25. exhibition GLOBAL:LAB, 03.06.2009 - 27.09.2009 at the MAK Vienna http://www.mak.at/mysql/ausstellungen_show_page.php?a_id=866&lang=en
  26. V&A http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/asia/past_exhns/hamza/
  27. This painting of the "Qissa" (Accession no. 24.49) is identified as Book 11, 84 r. by Sheila Canby and is one of a series of three that depict the entry of Amr and his companions into the fort of Zumurud Shah and his sorcerers disguised as a physician and his attendant.
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