The Funeral of Isfandiyar

جنازة إسفنديار

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings); Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 33.70.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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A page from the illustrated Shahnameh of Demotte: the funeral of Isfandiyar, Iran; the 1330s, Ilkhanid Tabriz. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1

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Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “The Funeral of Isfandiyar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/jinas-isfandiyar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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