Haft Awrang

Illustration from Chain of Gold
Zulaykha Enters the Capital of Egypt
Yousof-o Zoleikha
Illustration from Salaman and Absal

Haft Awrang (Persian: هفت اورنگ, meaning "Seven Thrones") by the Persian poet Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami is a classic of Persian literature composed some time between 1468 to 1485. Jami completed the work as seven books in masnavi form:

The term Haft Awrang itself is a reference to seven stars that form Big Dipper (Big Bear or دب اکبر).

Religion, philosophy, and ethics of Sufi origin lie at the root of all seven masnavis.

Freer Jami

Between 1556 and 1565, while he was governing Mashad, Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, nephew and son-in-law of Shah Tahmasp I, commissioned his own atelier of painters and calligraphers to create a sumptuous illustrated version of the Haft Awrang, producing one of the undoubted masterpieces of the Persian miniature, now in the Freer Gallery of Art, and known as the Freer Jami.

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