‘They loved the beauty around them’: the exquisite taste that made the Mughals great

Ahead of a major V&A exhibition, artist Waqas Khan celebrates the majesty of the Mughal empire – from the towering Taj Mahal down to the labyrinthine detail of their miniatures‘Look at these,” says Waqas Khan. “I call them Jali. They’re Islamic windows.” I look, as he urges, at the unglassed stone windows from Agra that are installed all around us in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s South Asia gallery. If you have ever visited it, you will have see