The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes 26,000 objects documenting Islamic art over a period of almost 1400 years, from 700 CE to the end of the twentieth century. It is the largest o
Folio from an exemplar of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh made for Tahmasp I; Tabriz, Iran, 1520–1550
Single-volume Quran, Istanbul, 1778 AD
Single folio from the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus, one of the earliest surviving Qurans, probably Mecca or Medina, 7th or 8th century AD
Noah's Ark, from the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh of Rashid al-Din, Tabriz, 1314–15
Great Mongol Shahnameh
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The Great Mongol Shahnameh also known as the Demotte Shahnameh or Great Ilkhanid Shahnama, is an illustrated manuscript of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran, probably dating to the 1330
Bahram Gur killing a wolf, Harvard University Art Museum
Mourning the dead Iskandar (Alexander the Great), Freer Gallery of Art
Iskandar (Alexander the Great) at the Talking Tree, which foretells his death. Freer Gallery of Art
The death of the hero Rustam and his horse Rakhsh; as he dies Rustam shoots his treacherous brother through the tree he hides behind. British Museum