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The Shahnama is a poem of some 50,000 couplets that was composed by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi over a period of several decades in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries.
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Sometime around the turn of the 20th century, the Shahnama mysteriously disappeared from Istanbul and in 1903 resurfaced in the possession of Baron Edmond de Rothschild.
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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Four years after Houghton's death in 1990, "Woman III" was exchanged for what remained intact of the Shahnama 118 paintings with 500 pages of calligraphy plus exquisite binding.
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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Mr. Hoare almost scuttled everything by absentmindedly phoning Mr. Houghton at his White House office to say that "the Iranians are really interested in the Shahnama."
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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The Shahnama, or "Book of Kings," began life as a 10th-century verse epic by the Persian poet Firdausi chronicling the mythological adventures of Persia's pre-Islamic rulers.
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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A gloriously illuminated manuscript from the 16th century, generally considered one of Muslim civilization's foremost artistic expressions, it came to be known as the "Houghton" Shahnama.
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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Oct. 23: "Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings" Illustrations from the Shahnama, which tells the story of Iran until the Arab conquest, and paintings it has inspired.
A sampling from area museum exhibits Post 2010
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The next day, a high-level delegation of mullahs arrived in a government Boeing 727, offloaded the de Kooning onto the tarmac and took away the Shahnama to Tehran, where it remains today at the Tehran Museum.
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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Take the murder scene from a Persian epic, "Shahnama," by the 15th-century artist whom art historians now call the Master of the Jainesque Shahnama.
Anonymous No More Lee Lawrence 2011
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On July 27, the Shahnama traveled in wooden crates from a Lloyd's bank vault in London to a Paris airport for inspection by Iranian art experts, then on to Vienna's airport.
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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