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'AttÂr's Canticle of the Birds
Illustrated Through Persian
and Eastern Islamic Art
DIANE DE SELLIERS ÉDITEUR
Launch at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, on 3 December 2014
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The Canticle of the Birds
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Eight Birds
Album page, verso, attributed to the Hindu artist in Akbar’s service, Tulsi Kalân, Agra (India), c.1590-1600.
Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris. 3619AB. © RMN / Thierry Ollivier.
Cranes and Ducks
Gouache and silver pigment on paper, unknown artist, Deccan, late 17th century.
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. AKM00148.
© Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Genève.
The Prophet Mohammad Borne Aloft by the Archangel GabrieL
l Illustration for a Me’râj-Nâmeh or “Book of the Mystical Ascent” copied and illuminated for the Islamicized Mongol sultan Abu Sa’îd.
Painting by Ahmad Mûsâ, Tabrîz ( Iran), 1316-1335.
Topkapi Palace Museum Library, Istanbul. H. 2154, f° 121 r°. © Topkapi Palace Museum Library.
The Angels Bow Down Before Adam
Illustration to a now dispersed manuscript of the “Whiffs of Intimacy”, a collection of lives of the Sufi saints by Jâmî of Herât.
Painting attributed to the artist Farhâd, Bukhârâ (Uzbekistan), c.1650.
The Art and History Collection, courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. LTS1995.2.61.
© The Art and History Collection, courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Hermit in Meditation
Album page, Torâbî Beg, Herât (Afghanistan), c.1587-1598 (during a brief Uzbek occupation of the city).
Rezâ ‘Abbâsî Museum, Tehran. Inv. 633. © Rights reserved.
The Canticle of the Birds, pages 100-101
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