A bit of Christmas history

"The Mughal dynasty, originating in what is now Uzbekistan, ruled India from 1526 until the 18th century, though the dynasty continued under British rule until 1857. Some of the members of the royal family were remarkably open-minded about religion, being a Muslim minority in a sea of Hindus and members of other religions. Indeed, most people in the Mughal bureaucracy were Hindus, and the Rajput Hindu cavalry was a key element of its military. It was not so much a Muslim empire, though Muslim rulers were at the top of it, as a multicultural one.

"The ruler Akbar (r. 1556-1605), a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I, invited to his court holy men from the Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Zoroastrian communities where they held dialogues on the truth. When Akbar conquered Gujarat, he encountered Portuguese Christians based at the colony of Goa, and invited some Jesuits to his court. At one point he commissioned them to write a Persian account of the life of Jesus. Jesus is recognized as a messenger of God in the Qur’an, but the Muslim tradition was often chary of reading the Gospels. Although the Gospels were praised in the Qur’an, as well, some medieval Muslim thinkers developed a doctrine that their text had been corrupted by later interpolations. The Jesuit “Mirror of Holiness” is a short illustrated manuscript with early modern European illustrations, including of the birth of Christ." 

https://www.juancole.com/2021/12/nativity-paintings-muslim.html