Unknown (painter, outliner) and Muhammad Jan al-Kirmani (calligrapher). Shahnama: Afrasiyab executes Nawzar. Shiraz and Isfahan, Iran, ca. 1604. Opaque watercolour, ink, gold on paper, 380 x 245 mm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Paris, France, Supplément Persan 490, fol. 44v .

Gibbs, Conner (Researcher, Scriptwriter, Voiceover, Storyboarder, Audio Editor, Image Editor, Animator, Coder). “Multimedia: Shahnama - Afrasiyab executes Nawzar, Iran, ca. 1604 (BNF Suppl. Persan 490, fol. 44v)” ARTH 370 Shahnama Project (BNF Supplément Persan 490), Dec. 4, 2018 .

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IMAGES

• BNF Gallica staff. Digital image of Shahnama: Afrasiyab executes Nawzar (BNF Suppl. Persan 490, fol. 44v). Paris, ca. Nov. 10, 2010. Digital image. BnF Gallica, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84229967/f104.highres

SOUND

• Turku, Nomads of the Silk Road. Penceresi Yola Karsi. Mp3. Vol. Live at the 2015 Golden Festival. New York: Zlatne Uste Golden Festival, 2015. freemusicarchive.org. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Turku_Nomads_of_the_Silk_Road/Live_at_the_2015_Golden_Festival_1720/Turku_Nomads_of_the_Silk_Road_-_03_-_Penceresi_Yola_Karsi
• Turku, Nomads of the Silk Road. Antalyanin Mor Uzumu. Mp3. Vol. Live at the 2015 Golden Festival. New York: Zlatne Uste Golden Festival, 2015. freemusicarchive.org. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Turku_Nomads_of_the_Silk_Road/Live_at_the_2015_Golden_Festival_1720/Turku_Nomads_of_the_Silk_Road_-_05_-_Antalyanin_Mor_Uzumu

TEXTS

• Abu ʾl-Qasim Firdowsi Tusi. "How Naudar was slain by Afrasiyab.” In The Shahnama of Firdausi. Vol. 1. 9 vols. Translated by Arthur G. Warner and Edmond Warner, 1:362-363. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1905. https://archive.org/details/shahnama01firduoft/page/362
• Mahallati, Mohammad Jafar Amir. "The Ethics of War and Peace in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi." Iranian Studies 48, no. 6 (2015): 905-931. Accessed October 24, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2014.920663.
• Mehran, Farhad."The Break-Line Verse: The Link between Text and Image in the 'First Small' Shahnama." In Shahnama Studies 1 , edited by Charles Melville, 151-170. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
• Roy, Kaushik. "Horses, guns and governments: A comparative study of the military transition in the Manchu, Mughal, Ottoman, and Safavid empires, circa 1400 to circa 1750." International Area Studies Review 15, no. 2 (2012): 99-121. Accessed October 24, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/2233865912447087.

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