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The Hamzanama series.​

Answer 1

The stories, from a long-established oral tradition, were written down in Persian, the language of the courts of the Persianate world, 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 in 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 (Burma), as the Mughals controlled those territories.[2] The longest version of the Hamzanama exists in Urdu and contains 46 volumes in approximately over 45,000 pages.[3]

Answer 2

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The series of 1400 paintings on cloth may have been produced in either 12, 14 or 17 volumes, and was directed by two Iranian master artists, Mir Sayyed Ali and Khwaja Abd-as Samad. The work involved over a hundred artists, gilders and bookbinders, and to complete took fifteen years (from 1562 to 1577).