Bahram Gur exhibits his hunting prowess before Fitna by shooting a wild ass and a lion with a single arrow. A miniature painting from a sixteenth cent

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Bahram Gur exhibits his hunting prowess before Fitna by shooting a wild ass and a lion with a single arrow. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Image taken from Originally published in Tabriz, 1539-1543. Author Nizami Khamsa, Illustrated by Sultan Muhammad.

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