Shahjahannama

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| image = Shah Jahan Receives Persian Ambassadors.jpg

| caption = The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan receives Safavid ambassadors in the year 1636, from a Padshahnama.

| author = Inayat Khan

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| country = Mughal Empire (India)

| language = Persian

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| genre = Biography

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| set_in = 17th century Mughal India

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The Shahjahannama ({{langx|fa|شاه جهان نما}}; {{lit|Chronicle of Shah Jahan}}) is a genre of works written about the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Padshahnama is a term for lavishly illuminated versions.

A significant work in this genre was written by the historian Inayat Khan in the 17th century.{{cite journal|title=The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: An Abridged History|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|volume=7|issue=3|pages=466–468|publisher=jstor.org|jstor=25183432|last1=Kani|first1=Wak|year=1997|doi=10.1017/S1356186300009652|s2cid=162937041 }}{{cite web|last=Khan|first=Gulfishan|title=Shahjahannama-|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/76204967/Shahjahannama|publisher=scribd.com|accessdate=3 February 2014}}{{cite web|title=Shah Jahan (1875)|year=1875 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006140374 |accessdate=3 February 2014}} The first complete English translation from Persian appeared in the 19th century by A. R. Fuller.{{cite book|author1='Inayat Khan|author2=Wayne Edison Begley|title=The Shah Jahan nama of 'Inayat Khan: an abridged history of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian : the nineteenth-century manuscript translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, add. 30,777)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_BtAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-562489-2 }}