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Sources

Abdullaeva, Firuza, and Charles Melville. The Persian Book of Kings: Ibrahim Sultan's Shahnama. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2008.

Brend, Barbara. Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi. London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2010.

Canby, Sheila R. The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: The Persian Book of Kings. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.

Ekhtiar, Maryam D., Priscilla P. Soucek, Sheila R. Canby, and Navina Najat Haidar, eds. Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011 (cat. nos. 138B,C).

Firdowsi. The Epic of the Kings: Shah-Nama, the National Epic of Persia. Translated by Reuben Levy. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1967.

Huart, Cl., and H. Massé. "Firdawsı." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2012.

Leoni, Francesca. "The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Simpson, Marianna Shreve. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

———. "The Production and Patronage of the Haft Aurang by Jamı in the Freer Gallery of Art." Ars Orientalis 13 (1982), pp. 93–104, 106–19.

Thompson, Jon, and Sheila R. Canby. Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501–1576. New York: Skira with the Asia Society, 2003.


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