Cover illustration: “The Angel Surush Rescues Khusrau Parviz from a Cul-de-sac,” folio 708v from the Shāhnama (“Book of Kings”) of Shah Tahmasp. Painting attributed to Muẓaffar ʿAlī (Iranian, active late 1520s–70s; died ca. 1576), date ca. 1530–35. Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 1970.301.73.
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