Gur is a great favourite in Persian tradition and poetry. Depiction of Nezami's "Bahram and the Indian Princess in the Black Pavilion", Khamsa, mid-16th...
English Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (d. 1325); The abduction by sea. Attributed to Bihzad. Herat, 1496 (FGA F1937.27)...
English Illustrated folio from a 'Khamsa' (quintet) by Amir Khusrau depicting Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya with three attendants, ca.1450 or earlier...
English Mah Saman poisons shakar, detached folio from a Khamsa by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi. India, c. 1450. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery S1986.124...
English ''Shirin's Suicide'', detached folio from the manuscript of Nizami's ''Khamsa''. Tabriz, c. 1505. The Keir Collection of Islamic Art on loan to...
English Bahram Gur in the Black Pavilion, folio from the ''Khamsa'' of Nizami. Basawan and Manohar. Mughal India, c. 1585-1590. The Keir Collection of Islamic...
Miniature (Oghuz Khan detail).jpg English Alexander and the Hermit, from Nizami's Iskandarnama, 1494-95, by Behzad. British Library OR.6810 Folio 273R...
(Oghuz Khan detail).jpg English Alexander and the Hermit, from Nizami's Iskandarnama, 1494-95, by Behzad. British Library OR.6810 Folio 273R (detail of Alexander)...
nobles followed his lead. This folio has come from a copy of the Mahabharata (known in Persian as the Razmnama) made for cAbd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad Khan-i...
Artist Murshid al-Shirazi (calligrapher) Description Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami; verso: Caliph al-Ma'mun and the barber; recto: text Ink...