Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran by Marianna Shreve Simpson, Massumeh Farhad

Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran

Marianna Shreve Simpson, Massumeh Farhad

440 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

poetry challenging informative medium-paced

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In 1556 Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza commissioned a copy of the great Persian literary classic, the Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) of Abdul-Rahman Jami. For the next nine years, five court calligraphers worked on the transcription of the poetic text, ...

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