The painter Ustad Mansur became one of the best artists to document the animals and plants which Jahangir either encountered on his military exhibitions or received as donations from emissaries of other countries.

The fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir ( r. 1605-24 ), commissioned a painting of the zebra, which was completed by Ustad Mansur.

The Siberian Crane was formally described by Peter Pallas in 1773 although Ustad Mansur, a 17th century court artist and singer respectively of Jehangir, illustrated a Siberian Crane ( original in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg ) about 100 years before Peter Pallas.

A 1610 painting thought to be by Ustad Mansur, or a contemporary, depicting the Dodo

Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth century Mughal painter and court artist of Jehangir ( r. 1605-1627 ) who specialised in depicting plants and animals.

Ustad Mansur started his career during the last few years of Akbar's reign as a minor painter.

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Painting of a Dodo attributed to Ustad Mansur

Ustad Mansur, a 17th century court artist of Jehangir, was the first man to accurately paint the Siberian Crane.

Painting by Ustad Mansur ( died after 1621 )

Isa Muhammad Effendi or Ustad Isa ( translation Master Isa ( Jesus in Arabic )) was a Persian architect from Iran he and his colleague Ismail Effendi entered the service of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV and the Mughals exchanged ambassadors.

Some of the most talented classical musicians of the sub-continent come from Bangladesh including Ustad Allauddin Khan, Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Manas Chakraborty, Ustad Ayet Ali Khan, Ustad Abed Hossain Khan and so on.

* Ustad Mohammad Omar: Virtuoso from Afghanistan ( 2002 )- Zakir Hussain

Some of the most famous artists include Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, along with his nephew Rahat Fateh Ali KhanThere are sabri brothers from karachi

Rafi learnt classical music from Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, Pandit Jiwan Lal Mattoo and Firoze Nizami.

Throughout this time, and as a consequence of a natural talent that was spotted by his father, Singh learned music in Sikh temples and from musicians such as Pandit Chaganlal Sharma and Ustad Jamaal Khan, both of whom were trained in classical Indian music.

Visible from left to right are ; Ustad Ashiq Ali Mir and Salman Ahmad. Junoon formed in 1990 when Salman Ahmad, founder, songwriter and lead guitarist, had a dream where one of his teachers shook him and said " Tumhey mousiqui ka Junoon hai!

Apart from Moula Bux, Sayajirao ’ s Court boasted of artists like Ustad Hazrat Inayat Khan and legendary all-time great of Agra Gharana Aftaab e Mousiqui ( Sun of Music ) Ustad Faiyyaz Khansaheb.

The Sabri brothers learnt music from their father, Ustad Inayat Sen Sabri.

He began taking singing lessons from his uncle, Krishna Chandra Dey and Ustad Dabir Khan.

While working independently as a music director for various Hindi movies, Manna Dey continued to take musical lessons in Hindustani classical music from Ustad Aman Ali Khan and Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan.

The titles for Hawza graduates will vary from a talaba ( student ) to Shaykh, Ustad, Hujjatul Islam, Allama and Ayatullah.

This was followed by training from Kahifa Badal Khan, Sarangi player, and Ustad Allauddin Khan.

Some of the most talented classical musicians of the sub-continent come from Bangladesh including Ustad Allauddin Khan, Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Manas Chakraborty, Ustad Ayet Ali Khan, Ustad Abed Hossain Khan and so on.

She received her musical training initially from her father, Ustad Ghulam Haider, and later from Ustad Salamat Ali Khan of the Sham Chorasia gharana.

The course is one of the first of its kind out of India and is being taught by the Head Professor, Dr. Ruby Malik of the Agra Gharana and studied under Gurus Ustad Shabbir Ahmed Khan, Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, Ustad Latafat Hussaun Khan ( ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata ) and was awarded her Ph. D in Music by Agra University.

Afghanistan's classical singers include the late Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang ( 1924-1983 ), who is one of the master singers of Patiala Gharana in North Indian classical music and is also well-known throughout India and Pakistan as a contemporary of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.

She later learned in India from greats such as Ustad Faiyaz Khan and Shamla Bhave of Bangalore, India.

In 1938, he made India his base, and established ' Uday Shankar India Cultural Centre ', at Simtola, 3 km from Almora, in Uttarakhand Himalayas, and invited Sankaran Namboodri for Kathakali, Kandappa Pillai for Bharatanatyam, Ambi Singh for Manipuri and Ustad Allauddin Khan for music.

He joined All India Radio in Lucknow, where he brushed shoulders with such ghazal and classical luminaries as Ustad Faiyyaz Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Begum Akhtar, and Talat Mahmood.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

The chief theological opponents of iconoclasm were the monks Mansur ( John of Damascus ), who, living in Muslim territory as advisor to the Caliph of Damascus, was far enough away from the Byzantine emperor to evade retribution, and Theodore the Studite, abbot of the Stoudios monastery in Constantinople.

ibn Juljul, al-Qifti, ibn abi Usaibi ' ah ), during the reign of Mansur ibn Ishaq ibn Ahmad ibn Asad who was Governor of Rey from 290-296 AH ( 902-908 C. E.

* Erzulie Mansur ( Erzulie the Blessed )-Represents maternal love and protects children from harm.

* Charles H. Mansur, U. S. Representative from Missouri ( 1887-1893 )

This historical document had references to the construction and the architecture of palaces during the era of Mansur Shah of Malacca | Sultan Mansur Shah, who ruled from 1458 to 1477.

Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi () ( born: 126 or 127 AH ; died: 169 AH ) ( born: 744 or 745 AD ; died: 785 AD ), was the third Abbasid Caliph who reigned from 158 AH to 169 AH ( 775 – 785 ).

Mansur (, Manṣūr ; also spelled Mansoor, Mansour, Monsour or Mensur ) is a male Arabic name that means " victorious, by the will of God ", from the Arabic root naṣr ( نصر ), meaning " victory.

* Charles H. Mansur, American politician from Missouri

Many prominent civil servants worked as its Deputy Commissioners ; renowned among them is Mansur Zaimur Rehman ( M. Z. Rehman ), who worked as the DC from 1959 to 1962.

Abu Mansur Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi () ( born: Tus, Iranian province of Khorasan-died: 1072 Tabriz, Iran ) is arguably the second most important Persian poet of the Iranian national epics, after Ferdowsi who also happens to come from the same town of Tus.

Al-Jazeera reporter Ahmed Mansur, and cameraman Laith Mushtaq, the only two non-embedded journalists covering the conflict since 3 April, reported that an unknown source stated that United States insisted that the reporters be withdrawn from the city, as a pre-condition to the ceasefire.

Mansur Isaev ( Russian: Мансу ́ р Мустафа ́ евич Иса ́ ев ) ( born 23 September 1986 ) is a ethnic Avar judoka from Russia.

Following Mahmud's death from cholera, the Acehnese proclaimed a young grandson of Tuanku Ibrahim, named Tuanku Muhammad Daud Syah, as Sultan Ibrahim Mansur Syah ( r. 1874 – 1903 ) and continued their struggle in the hills and jungle territory for ten years, with heavy casualties on both sides.

Mansur Khan's brother Sultan Said Khan ( 1514 – 1533 ) conquered the western Tarim Basin from the Dughlats in 1514 and set himself up in Kashgar.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754-775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

As he hailed from the village Mansur, he was nicknamed so and this accompanied him for the rest of his life.

Other Muslim scholars from the region include Imam Tirmidhi and Abu Mansur Maturidi who was one of the pioneers of Islamic Jurisprudence scholars and his two works are considered to be authoritative on the subject.

In Islamic theology, jurisprudence and philosophy, and in Hadith collection, many of the greatest Islamic scholars came from Khorasan, namely Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Abu Hanifa, Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim, Abu Dawood, Al-Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa ' i, Al-Ghazali, Al-Juwayni, Abu Mansur Maturidi, Fakhruddin al-Razi, and others.

Sheikh Mansur rallied resistance fighters from Dagestan through Kabarda.

In the Battle of Yarkand in March – April 1934, Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan's Chinese Muslim troops, 10, 000 strong, defeated 2, 500 strong Uighur force led by emir Shah Mansur ( Abdullah Khan Bughra ) from Yarkand to Yengi Hissar to deblocade citadel in which his brother Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra was besieged.