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| name = Iltifat Khan<br />
| image = Study of Iltifat Khan.jpg<br />
| alt = A drawing of a bearded man with his head slightly tilted upwards<br />
| caption = [[Study (art)|Study]] of Iltifat Khan, c. 1640, anonymous, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].{{efn|The drawing was probably made in preparations for a larger {{Transliteration|fa|[[Durbar (court)|durbar]]}} scene in which the subject would be standing in a court assembly looking upward at the emperor (as suggested by his raised gaze.) A [[Devanagari]] inscription above identifies the subject and indicates that the drawing was in a [[Rajput]] collection for some time in history.{{sfn|Guy|Haidar|2024|p=13}}}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Iltifat Khan |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/825598 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref><br />
| birth_name = Murad Mirza<br />
| house = [[Safavid dynasty]]<br />
| father = [[Rustam Mirza Safavi]]<br />
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'''Murad Khan''', also '''Sultan Murad Mirza Iltifat Khan''' and '''Mirza Mukarram Khan Safavi''', often simply '''Iltifat Khan''', was a son of [[Rustam Mirza Safavi]], a noble of [[Safavid Empire|Safavid]] ancestry at the court of the [[Mughal Empire]]. Rustam Mirza Safavi, at the age of sixteen, had married a noblewoman from the prominent Shaykhavand tribe in 1581.{{sfn|Hejazi|2002|p=91}}<br />
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Murad Khan received the title of "Iltifat Khan" from the Mughal Emperor [[Jahangir]].{{sfn|Crill|Jariwala|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ongF6dkNKAcC&pg=PA100 100]}} He then received the title of "Mukarram Khan" in the 27th year of the reign of [[Shah Jahan]], circa 1655.{{sfn|Crill|Jariwala|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ongF6dkNKAcC&pg=PA100 100]}} Iltifat Khan is said to have been well-connected at the Mughal court, through his marriage and the marriages of his daughters.{{sfn|Guy|Haidar|2024|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BifyEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 12]}} He married the daughter of the Mughal notable [[Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan|'Abdur-Rahim Khan-i Khanan]].{{sfn|Crill|Jariwala|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ongF6dkNKAcC&pg=PA100 100]}}<br />
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His fine, realistic, portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the result of [[Akbar]]'s insistence on the creation of life-like depictions, in contradiction with the precepts of religious orthodoxy.{{sfn|Guy|Haidar|2024|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BifyEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 12]}} <br />
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Iltifat Khan took really retirement and died in [[Patna]] in 1657,{{sfn|Guy|Haidar|2024|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BifyEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 12]}} or in 1669.{{sfn|Crill|Jariwala|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ongF6dkNKAcC&pg=PA100 100]}}<br />
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| image1 = Shah Ismail Safavi and Six of His Descendants. Calligraphy signed Shah Qasim. Mughal India, circa 1650-60.jpg<br />
| image2 = Shah Ismail Safavi and Six of His Descendants (Sultan Murad Mirza (titled 'Iltafat Khan' under Jahangir), detail). Calligraphy signed Shah Qasim. Mughal India, circa 1650-60.jpg<br />
| footer=Another portrait of Iltafat Khan, in ''Shah Ismail Safavi and Six of His Descendants''. Calligraphy signed Shah Qasim. Mughal India, circa 1650-60<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
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* {{cite book |last1=Crill |first1=Rosemary |last2=Jariwala |first2=Kapil |title=The Indian Portrait, 1560-1860 |date=2010 |publisher=Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd |isbn=978-81-89995-37-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ongF6dkNKAcC&pg=PA100 |language=en}}<br />
* {{cite book|last1=Guy|last2=Haidar|first1=John|first2=Navina Najat|title=Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting|year=2024|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |publication-place=New York|oclc=1427175369}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Hejazi |first=Banafsheh |title=ضعیفه: بررسی جایگاه زن ایرانی در عصر صفوی |trans-title=The Weak Sex: A Study Concerning the Place of Iranian Woman in the Age of the Safavids |year=2002 |publisher=Qasideh-sara |publication-place=Tehran |oclc=1311582538 |isbn=9789649376912 |language=fa}}<br />
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