"The Persians loved their poetry and their poets, who are richly represented in the exhibition. Twenty-one miniatures from the finest extant illustrated life of the poet and mystic Rumi (1207–1273), dating from the 1590s, is the masterpiece of the Baghdad School.
They depict, among other things, Rumi temporarily restoring life to Hamza so that he could hear his favorite flutist, saving a bull from the butcher, and even a vision by his beloved disciple of the Prophet Muhammad reading Rumi’s poetry.
Rumi, one of the most widely read poets in America today, spoke of love, wine and tolerance. “The nation of love is above denominations,” he wrote. Another section of the exhibition is devoted to illustrations of the Khamsa of Nizami (ca. 1141–1209), a collection of five poetic works that include depictions of the ill-fated lovers Laila and Majnun, the Persian Romeo and Juliet.
Six manuscripts of the poems, ranging in date from the 15th to the 17th centuries, are on view."
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