The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (Persian: شاهنامه شاه‌طهماسب) or Houghton Shahnameh is one of the most famous illustrated manuscripts of the Shahnameh, the...

from the Shahnameh being used by an Islamic-era dynasty based in Iran. In the Shahnameh, Tahmasp is the father of Zaav, the penultimate shah of the Pishdadian...

son's Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. Two similar cycles of illustration of the mid-17th century, the Shahnameh of Rashida and the Windsor Shahnameh, come...

Tahmasp I (Persian: طهماسب یکم, romanized: Ṭahmāsb or تهماسب یکم Tahmâsb; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524...

his four sons after mythological shahs and heroes of the Shahnameh; his oldest son was named Tahmasp, after the last shah of the Pishdadian dynasty; his...

young Shah Tahmāsp took the throne, Iran was in a dire state. But in spite of a weak economy, a civil war and foreign wars on two fronts, Tahmāsp managed...

of which we have some trace is the unfinished Tahmasp Shahnameh commissioned by Ismail for his son Tahmasp, including Raksh defends a sleeping Rustam. This...

David Geffen for part of a 16th-century Persian manuscript, the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. In November 2006, the painting was sold by Geffen to billionaire...

Safavid court, such as the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (or Houghton Shahnameh). There was a crisis in the 1540s when Shah Tahmasp I, previously a patron on...

the Aq Qoyunlu Turkomans and proclaimed himself the Shah of Iran. He was succeeded by his son, Tahmasp I, whose reign saw the long Ottoman-Safavid war of...

third shah of Safavid Iran from 1576 to 1577. He was the second son of Tahmasp I with his principal consort, Sultanum Begum. On the orders of Tahmasp, Ismail...

(highest religious authority) with Shah Enayatollah Esfahani, who had previously served as the military chaplain under Tahmasp I. Ismail II worked with Makhdum...

He is the main antagonist of the Persian epic Shahnameh, written by Ferdowsi. According to the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), by the Persian epic poet Ferdowsi...

Bizhan slaughters the wild boars of Irman, Miniature from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. Tabriz, c. 1530 17th century Mogul miniature of an old courtier...

aristocrat executed by the orders of Shah Tahmasp II (possibly compelled by Nader Qoli Beg, who came to be known as Nader Shah after usurping the throne of Iran...

rulers who saw themselves as heroes in the Shahnameh, echoing the earlier Samanid trend of patronizing the Shahnameh for legitimizing texts. First, Persian...

court painter Sultan Muhammad. This version was created for the Persian Shah Tahmasp I. Khosrow and Shirin meet, illustration from Prince Aurangzeb's Khamsa...

manuscripts with Persian miniatures, including the Great Mongol Shahnameh, the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, and the oldest manuscript of world history the Jamiʿ al-tawarikh...

the United States Constitution, two illustrated folios from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, two copies of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica...

miniatures from the 16th-century illustrated manuscript, the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, except that of Fereydun, which is from the Tarjumah-i Shâhnâmah...

Isfahan is the most notable example. Except for Shah Abbas the Great, Shah Ismail I, Shah Tahmasp I, and Shah Abbas II, many of the Safavid rulers were ineffectual...

of works by Leonardo da Vinci Codex Atlanticus Codex Arundel Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp Leonardo (da Vinci), Kenneth David Keele, Jane Roberts, Leonardo...

demonized in the Persian religion (see daeva). In Ferdowsi's tenth-century Shahnameh, they are already the evil entities endowed with roughly human shape and...

Kohgiluyeh and from Shushtar to Behbahan) became Bakhtiyari land. In 1566, Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) selected the Astarki chieftain Tajmir as ilkhan of the...

ISBN 978-0567085061), p. 101 Shah, Portrayed in Shah Tahmasp'S. "Twin Spirits Angels and Devils Portrayed in Shah Tahmasp'S Shah Nameh Duncan Haldane." Paradise...

national history (Tarikh-e Sistan), Goshtasp in Firdausi's Book of Kings (Shahnameh), Goshtasf in the Mojmal al-tawarikh, Beshtashb by Al-Tabari. In several...

the specific manuscripts described (most prominently the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, more commonly known in the west as the Houghton shahnama) are real and...

Discussion of Az at Encyclopedia Iranica A king's book of kings: the Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully...

manuscripts such as the Al-Kindi book on optics and a folio from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, the range of works is comprehensive and representative of many...

"The Angel Surush Rescues Khusrau Parviz from a Cul-de-sac", Folio 708v from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (c. 1530–1535)...