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Historically, a vizier, also transliterated as wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the countries of "greater Persia". The Abbasid caliphs gave the title wazir to a minister forme
An illustrated Portrait of Mohammad Shah Qajar and his Vizier Haji Mirza Aqasi in Iran during the 19th century. Vizier's roles as advisors in courts evolved over time, becoming an important part of official government institutions.
The winter Diwan of a Mughal Vizier
Portrait of Amir Kabir, the famous modernising Vazir of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar of Iran, 1849
Ivory chess vizier, Italy, 12th century
One Thousand and One Nights
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One Thousand and One Nights or The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as Th
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…king, to wipe out all Jews living in Persia. Ja'far ibn Yahya of Harun al-Rashid, a member of Barmakid family and an inspiration for the aforementioned Arabian Nights Jafar Amir Kabir of Qajar Iran…
Sindbad the sailor and Ali Baba and the forty thieves by William Strang, 1896
Scheherazade and Shahryar by Ferdinand Keller, 1880
1898 illustration of The Fisherman and the Jinni by René Bull
A page from Kelileh va Demneh dated 1429, from Herat, a Persian version of the original ancient Indian Panchatantra – depicts the manipulative jackal-vizier, Dimna, trying to lead his lion-king into war.