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Garden of Eden in al-Naysaburi’s ‘Stories of the Prophets’, Iran, 16th century. Currently on view in https://t.co/TTmvm3p3RE

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2021-07-19

Not too late for a Sunday Filling water-skins and visiting a tomb in this luxurious 16th century Shiraz copy of the poetical works of the poet Ahli (IO Islamic 550, ff. 78v-79r)

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2020-07-27

A powerful image from the Darabnamah commissioned for the Emperor 1580-85: Bahman, son of the hero Isfandiyar, and his horse are swallowed by a dragon

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2020-06-29

How to perfume the Sultan's banqueting hall or bedchamber! From IO Islamic 149 the Niʻmatnama or Nasir Shah's Book of delights, c 1500. By special request!

More on this colourful manuscript at
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2020-05-08

Storms ahead today! When the people of ʻAd rejected the prophet Hud's message, God punished them by sending a wind which threw them up and dashed them to the ground https://t.co/TTmvm3p3RE

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2019-11-02

The Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ (stories of the prophets) by al-Naysābūrī features prophets common to Qur'anic and biblical traditions. Some familiar stories here in this 16th century copy (Add MS 18576). More at
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2019-10-14

of you may come to laughing at the of your so said Sa'di of Shiraz in his Bustan Add 27262 f. 162v (https://t.co/T4k082m7uf), discussed in https://t.co/eLCsH8odVO

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2018-06-18

Some more images from copy of Qabusnamah, Or.5263, c1830

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2017-11-03

Iskandar comforts dying Dara, by Kamal (Add5600)

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2015-07-27