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"Kneeling holy man", from the Album of Prince Salim. Attributed to Mir Sayyid Ali, about 1558. Part of the exhibit "Art and Stories of Mughal India" at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ali was brought to India from Persia by the great Mughal king, Humayan. The poem reads:

"If it were greed that led you to acquire learning, then be afraid. For at night, a thief with a torch can take away the choicest goods!"

The image is of a Sufi holy man (identifiable by his blue robes), kneeling in false humility in order to win alms.
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