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Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī
Radha and Krishna on the terrace, Indian miniature painting, Kishangarh style, c. 1760.
“Mejnūn Being Brought by a Beggar Woman to Leylā's Tent,” miniature by Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī done for Shāh Ṭahmāsp I, 1539–43; in the British Library (OR. MS. 2265 fol 157v)
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