Haft Awrang
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Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami's Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) is a classic of Persian literature composed some time between 1468 to 1485. Jami completed the work as seven poems in masnavi form:
- Silsilat al-dhahab (Chain of Gold)
- Yusuf and Zulaikha
- Subhat al-abrar (Rosary of the Pious)
- Salaman u Absal
- Tuhfat al-ahrar (Gift of the Free)
- Layli u Majnun
- Kiradnama-i Iskandari (Alexander's Book of Wisdom) combines allegorical romance with didactic discourse.
Religion, philosophy, and ethics of Sufi origin lie at the root of all seven masnavis.
[edit] Freer Jami
In 1556, Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, son-in-law of Shah Tahmasb, commissioned court painters and calligraphers to create a sumptuous illustrated version of the Haft Awrang. This eventual nine year undertaking has produced one of the undoubted masterpieces of Safavid Islamic art. Currently housed in the Freer Gallery of Art, this manuscript is referred to as the Freer Jami.
[edit] References
- Simpson, J.R.R. Marianna Shreve (1997). Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. Yale University Press. hardback: ISBN 978-0300068023
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