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The Prophet Muhammad borne to heaven by the archangel Gabriel
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the symbol of the active intelligence
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Mystical ascension of the Prophet Muhammad
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Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
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Illustration by Qadimi to Jamis Salaman and Absal in the Mashhad manuscript
1556-65
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The Crescent moon turned downwards
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Detail from Nizami s Shade Welcomes the Poets jami and Mir Ali Sher Nawa in the Dream Garden
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Rumi riding his mule as an Ottoman prelate swollen with pride,and Brought back to humility on seeing the dervish Shams
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Mid Sixteenth century Ottoman illustration to a hagiography of Rumi
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Young Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni visits a Hermit Note the sultan-s horse and his dog.
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According to the poem,the hermit suddenly dies before the king like a bird quitting its cage
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Alexander and the her hermit
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Detail of an Illustration to Nizami\'s Alexander romance.Shiraz
1543
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The Seven Sleepers in the cave of Ephesus with their dog
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Islamic adaptation of the Chinese motif of the three arhat s in a circle with their tame tiger
c.1478-1490
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The Seven Sleepers in the cave of Ephesus with their dog
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The Ultimate pictorial stage,as derived from Islamic adaptations of the originally Chinese motif of the three arhat s in a circle with their tame tiger.
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Alexander and Plato sit together in the cave
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The verses inscribed correspond only to the anecdote of a courtier tartly reprimanded by a dervish in the Matla ul Anwar by the fouteenth century indo Persian
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Arhat asleep on his tame tiger
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Thirteenth century Chinese copy after an original by Shih k o,Tenth century,
Commission for the Protection of Cultural Properties
Tokyo
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Elijah and khizr as mirror images,near the fount of life where their twin fish have resuscitated
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Elijah\'s mule and khizr\'s horse,symbols of thir bodies or physical mounts,also indicate their hierarchial difference in spiritual rank
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The poet Sa di questions a young scholar before the mosque of Kashghar
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The interior of the mosque,through dual illustration,
However represents Majnun writing verses in Praise of Layli framed within her prayer niche.
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The hero Isfandiyar slays Arjasp the demonking in the Brazen Hold
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Illustration to a manuscript of Firdawsi\'s Shah-Nameh for the Timurid prince Muhammad juki
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c.1440
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Dancing demons
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School of Muhammad Siyah Qalam
Tabriz
c.1478-90
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Angels and dragons
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School of Muhammad Siyah Qalam
Tabriz
c.1478-90
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Solomon,with the Queen of Sheba and their minister Asaph
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rules as symbol of sovereign intellect ouver fairy folk,demons,dragons
the Fowls of the Air,and the beasts of the earth
School of Isfahan
c.1600
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Dazed overwhelmed,and bleary eyed demons
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Detail of an illustration by Sultan Muhammad
c.1520-25
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The hoopoe addresse the soul birds beneath the Tree of Life Springing up from the fount of life
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While the devil as baffled hunter bites his finger
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Alexander and the hermit
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Illustration to Nizami s Alexander romance,added by the artist Mir Musawwir in Tabriz
c.1535-40
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