Khusraw listening to Barbad playing the lute. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Image taken

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Khusraw listening to Barbad playing the lute. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Image taken from Khamsa. Originally published in Tabriz 1539-1543. Author Nizami Khamsa, Illustrated by Mirza 'Ali.

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Keywords: ali, arts, entertainment, historical, history, instrument, khamsa, lute, mirza, musical, musician, nizami, occupations, persian