« Of Jewels and Horses: the Career and Patronage of an Iranian Merchant under Shah Jahan ». Iranian Studies 36, 2 (2003), pp. 213-240.

Here, Elizabeth Lambourn contributes to a special issue of Iranian Studies on Indo-Persian contacts with an article examining the patronage and construction of a hitherto unexamined mosque by a prominent and successful Iranian émigré named ʽAlī Akbar Iṣfahānī in the Gujarati city of Cambay. Little remains of this Masjid-i Fatḥ, built in 1656, except the four surrounding walls, on which we find marble miḥrābs with inscriptions in both Persian and Arabic attesting to the building and patronage ..