Bahram Gur hunting. The king sits on a camel and has just shot a gazelle with his arrow. From a distance Arzu plays the harp, sitting on horseback. Or. 494. Persian, paper, 547 ff., nasta`liq script, illuminated and illustrated, dated Saturday 15 Ramadan 840/1437, copied by `Imad al-Din `Abd al-Rahman al-Katib

 

 

The First Graduate Workshop in pre-Modern Iranian Studies


Evangelos Venetis


- c. Ph.D in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Edinburgh-UK)

Research Interests: Iranian and Islamic Studies
- Medieval Persian Literature (Popular Prose Romances)
- The Figure of Alexander the Great in Persian Sources (Medieval Islamic Period)
- Iranian History (Sassanian Period, Medieval Islamic Period)
- Late Antiquity - Byzantine History (Byzantine-Sasanian Relations)
- Modern Persian Literature

Publications
See http://www.oocities.org/evenetis

Contact:
Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES)
7-8, Buccleuch Place
EH8 9LW
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom

Email: e.venetis@sms.ed.ac.uk
Tel.:+44 131 651 1728
Fax: + 44(0)131-650 6804
http://www.oocities.org/evenetis

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 
















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