Unknown (painter, outliner) and Muhammad Jan al-Kirmani (calligrapher). Shahnama: The Div Akvan throws Rustam into the Sea.Shiraz and Isfahan, Iran, ca. 1604. Opaque watercolour, ink, gold on paper, 150 x 245 mm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Paris, France, Supplément Persan 490, fol. 157v.

Lekei, Madelaine. (Researcher, Scriptwriter, Voiceover, Storyboarder, Audio Editor, Image Editor, Animator, Coder). “Multimedia Shahnama: The Div Akvan throws Rustam into the Sea, Iran, ca, 1604 (BNF Suppl. Persan 490, fol. 157v).” ARTH 370 Shanhama Project (BNF Supplement Persan 490), Dec. 4, 2018. .

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IMAGES

• BNF Gallica staff. Digital image of Shahnama: The Div Akvan throws Rustam into the Sea. (BNF Suppl. Persan 490, fol. 157v). Paris, ca. Nov. 10, 2010. Digital image. BnF Gallica, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84229967/f330.highres

SOUND

• Seyyah. Mahur Saz Semani. MP3. Vol. Live at Barbés for Transpacific Sound Paradise on WFMU. Barbés, Brooklyn: WFMU, 2017. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Seyyah/Live_at_Barbs_for_Transpacific_Sound_Paradise_on_WFMU_5132017_1841/Seyyah_1_Mahur
• Turku, and Nomads of the Silk Road. Lesgi. MP3. Vol. Golden Festival 2012. New York City: WFMU, 2012. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Turku_Nomads_of_the_Silk_Road/Nomads_of_the_Silk_Road_Golden_Festival_2012/Turku_-_03_-_Lesgi
• Turku, and Nomads of the Silk Road. MP3. Vol. Alleys of Istanbul. Music for Video, 1998. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Turku_Nomads_of_the_Silk_Road/Alleys_of_Istanbul/14_-Bir_Demet_Yasemen
• Turku, and Nomads of the Silk Road. Penceresi Yola Karsi. MP3. Vol. Golden Festival 2015. New York City: WFMU, 2015. 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

TEXTS

• Abuʾl-Qasim Firdowsi Tusi. “The Story of the Fight of Rustam with the Div Akwan.” In The Shahnama of Firdausi. Vol. 3. 9 vols. Translated by Arthur G. Warner and Edmond Warner, 273-283. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1905. https://archive.org/details/shhnmafirdaus01firdgoog/page/n287
• Sims, Elenor, “The Illustrated Manuscripts of Firdausi’s ‘Shāhnāma’ Commissioned by Princes of the House of Timūr.” Ars Orientalis Vol. 22, (1992):43-68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629424
• Den Uijl, Sebastiann, “The Trickster ‘Archetype’ in the Shanama.” Iranian Studies 43, no.1 (2010):71-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646811
• Davis, Dick, Rostam: Tales of Love and War from Persia’s Book of Kings. (Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 2007). IX-XXV.

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