Image Information:The above picutre is a detail of Barbad,
the Concealed Musician from the Shah-nama, "Book of Kings,"
Plate 10, 731 recto. Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century.
Attributable to Mirza Ali, ca. 1522. This copy in the library of Arthur
A. Houghton, Jr., who presented 78 of its 258 miniatures to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
Vita
Hasan Kayali teaches the history of the Middle East in the Islamic period.
He studied at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in History
and Middle Eastern Studies in 1988. His research focus is political history
of the Middle East in the early twentieth century. He has written on the
administration of Arab provinces in the late Ottoman Empire and nationalism
and rival ideologies during the transition from empire to nation-states.
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