September 30, 2004
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Nezami’s Khosrow-o-Shirin. Iran, seventeenth-eighteenth
century. MS 1398, folio 15r. Coveting Khosrow’s
throne and Shirin’s love, Shiruyeh -- Khosrow’s son
by another marriage -- here kills his father in his sleep. (Courtesy
of the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Photography
by Suzanne Kaufman.)
From Esther's
Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews.
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