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The History of God
FIELD No. 246D
Visual depiction of Akbar the Great

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Akbar the Great

Mughal emperor who founded the Din-i-Ilahi Divine Faith declaring himself the earthly light of God

receiving homage from Hindu sages and Muslim scholars alike

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.