Rustam Takes Aim at Ashkabus, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings)

The forty wives and their secret paramours being punished by stoning to death, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Vechtscène tussen twee bereden krijger

anonymous

An East African King Receives Three Emissaries, from a Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

India, Sultanate period

The prince, once reprieved, is returned to the palace of execution a second time on the plea of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Gujarati

Gevechtsscène, illustratie van de Razm Nama

anonymous

The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Banavari 1

The court jester meets a Zangi dancing with joy, and learns from him that the cause of his happiness is his assignation with a woman who is the jester’s own wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-second Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The prince sent back to the place of execution for the sixth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Suraju

The prince being taken away for execution on the false complaint of the handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Shahnameh-aihe

Unknown Artist

Rustam met draak

anonymous

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Unknown Artist