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Rostam moves the giant rock to free Bijan

An Overlooked Shahnamah

These are images from a recently-found completely unrecorded Shahnameh in British Library collection. This copy of Shahnameh is probably from 1640, illustrated by by Muhammad Yusuf, a prolific artist during the reigns of the Safavid rulers Shah Safi (r. 1629-42) and Shah Abbas II (r. 1642-66).

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White Deev

For ages the battle of Rostam and White Deev has been one of the most popular subjects among Iranian book illustrators, tile-makers, and coffee-house painters.

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Iranian Politicians from 1940s
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Last day of Café Prague in Tehran
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Emamzadeh Abdollah’s Cemetery
Tehran’s Post and Communications Museum
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