"The Jewel Tree", a page from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama, Tabriz, c. 1530 CE sold at Sotheby's 10/15/1997

Minaret, for the mosque of Amir Qutb al-Din Aibak Delhi, India, ca. 1192 CE height 230 ft.

Read:

• Duiker/Spielvogel:  pp. 241-268.
• Christian:  pp. 406-439.
• Reilly, Vol. 1, pp. 301-311, 323-328 (Kevin Reilly, "Love in Medieval Europe, India, and Japan"; Kalidasa, from "Shakuntala"; Mirabai, "Bhakti Poems").

Written Assignment 11: Due on email by Sunday, 6 pm, March 23.  Answer the following question in 4 to 5 paragraphs.

What impact did Muslim rule have on India

Maps

Map of the Mongol Empire

Some websites relating to Mahmud of Ghazni and Firdausi and his Shahnama.

Mahmud of Ghazni (Afghan view)

Mahmud of Ghazni (Indian view)

Mahmud of Ghazni (Hindu nationalist view)

Ferdowsi (Iranian view)

Selections from the Shahnama in Farsi

Characters in the Shahnama

The Shahnama at NPR (audio - in English and Farsi)

A Farsi/Persian website on the Shahnameh

The famous British project on the Shahnama - organized by Cambridge University, but international and truly wonderful!

NYT Book Review of Dick Davis' recent translation of some parts of the Shahnama - "The Epic of Iran"

The "Great Mongol Shahnama"