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Saʿdī: Bustān miniature Ḥāfeẓ
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See actors discuss their roles in a play based on a poem by Farīd al-Dīn al-ʿAṭṭār, The Conference of the Birds
Actors talking about their parts in a play based on Manṭeq al-ṭayr (The...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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wine bottle
Ceramic wine bottle, fritware, Iran, second half of the 17th century; in the Los...
Photograph by Beesnest McClain. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, M.73.5.196
Sulṭān Muḥammad: “The Feast of Sada” in the Shāh-nāmeh
“The Feast of Sada,” miniature attributed to the painter Sulṭān Muḥammad, from a...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970 (accession no. 1970.301.2); www.metmuseum.org
Saʿdī: Bustān miniature
Shallow tiled pool and water channels characteristic of the Islamic garden. “Sultan...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911, (11.134.2), www.metmuseum.org
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Dīvān of...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
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