considered the finest illustrated texts ever in the Islamic world, the "Shahnama" (Book of Kings) has just gone on view at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. "The Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings", is "probably one of the finest shows we've ever put together," Massumeh Farhad, the Sackler and Freer Galleries' chief curator, curator of Islamic art, and organizer of the exhibition told a press preview before the exhibit opened on October 23.
The "Shahnama" is "the great Persian epic, comparable on its cultural significance and popularity to the works of Homer and Shakespeare . . .," Farhad explained.
from Examiner: Iran's 1000-year-old illuminated literary masterpiece at Smithsonian
then Freer/Sackler: Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings
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