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`Amr-e Omayya addresses the King of the East, bound and gagged on his bed, folio from the Book of the East (Khāvarānnāma) by Ibn Ḥusām (d. 1470)
The trickster hero `Amr-e Omayya stands over the pagan king, whom he has bound and gagged, while drugged servants sleep all around the palace bedroom.
Composed in 1426-1427 (830H), Ibn Ḥusām’s epic Book of the East (Khāvarānnāma) tells the mythologised adventures of five heroes of Shi`a Islam: Imām `Alī (`Ali ibn Abī Ṭālib, d. 661, son-in-law of the Prophet Muḥammad) and his four companions Sa`d-e Vaqqāṣ (Sa`d ibn Abī Waqqāṣ), Abū al-Meḥjan (`Abdullāh Abū Miḥjan), Mālik-e Azhdar (Mālik al-Ashtar), and the heroic trickster (`ayyār) `Amr-e Omayya (`Amr ibn Umayya al-Ḍamrī). Through their collective strength and resourcefullness, the righteous five gradually conquer all the pagan kings and fortresses of "the lands of the East" for Islam. Along the way they also defeat supernatural monsters and overcome magical challenges and talismans. At the end of the story, the heroes return to Medina, to the Muslim community and to the Prophet himself. The poem's format, metre and mood deliberately echo that of the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma, composed c. 1010 by Firdausi about Iran's ancient kings), but Ibn Ḥusām's story instead celebrates charismatic religious figures, and confirms the rise in `Alid piety in late fifteenth century Iran.
This illustrated page is detached from a partially-dispersed manuscript: the codex is in Tehran (Gulistan Palace Library, MS 5750, 645 folios) and forty illustrated folios (including ten in the Chester Beatty, bought in France in 1953 and 1954) are now in international collections, public and private. The Tehran manuscript's colophon is dated 1450 (854H), but may not be original to the manuscript. Five of the Chester Beatty paintings not including this one (Per 293.1, 293.2, 293.4, 293.5, 293.10) are dated 1477 (881H), and signed by the painter Farhād (who is otherwise unknown).
Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script with painting (on verso), from the Book of the East (Khāvarānnāma) composed 1426-7 (830H) by Muḥammad ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Ḥasan ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Khūsfī (1381-1470), known as Ibn Ḥusām, possibly Shiraz, Iran, this folio undated, others in this set dated 881H, 1476-1477.
`Amr-e Omayya addresses the King of the East, bound and gagged on his bed, from the Book of the East (Khāvarānnāma) by Ibn Ḥusām (d. 1470)
Per 293.7
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