The Conquest of Tunisia

Artist (painter): `Ali Artist (painter): Naqqas Osman Author: Lokman Scribe: Ilyas Katib

12 January 1581 CE/6 Dhu'l-Hijja 988 AH/AH 988

Opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on paper

Aga Khan Museum

A battle scene unfolds with soldiers on horseback and on foot, some carrying flags and weapons, set against a backdrop of stylized hills and trees. A battle scene unfolds with soldiers on horseback and on foot, some carrying flags and weapons, set against a backdrop of stylized hills and trees. Further Reading Lokman was Ottoman court historian between 1569 and 1595, serving under the sultans Selim II (r. 1566–74) and Murad III (r. 1574–95). Soon after completing the Zafername , an account of the Ottoman military campaign in Szigetvár, he was assigned to the Şehname-i Selim Han , a record of the reign of Selim II. Work would stretch over a decade as he painstakingly rendered the chronicle in the metre and verse of the Shahnameh , the Persian epic that had been composed s