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illuminator  Ibn  Shakir  fled  the  city  and  the  slaughter;  heading  north  on  the

road by which the Mongol horsemen had e; instead of south along with

everyone  else。  At  that  time;  no  one  made  illustrations  because  the  Koran

forbade  them;  and  painters  weren’t  taken  seriously。  We  owe  the  greatest

secrets of our noble occupation to Ibn Shakir; the patron saint and master of

all  miniaturists:  the  vision  of  the  world  from  a  minaret;  the  persistence  of  a

horizon line visible or invisible; and the depiction of all things from clouds to

insects  the  way  the  Chinese  envisaged  them;  in  curling;  lively  and  optimistic

colors。 I’ve heard that he studied the nostrils of horses in order to keep himself

moving  northward  during  that  legendary  journey  into  the  heartland  of  the

Mongol hordes。 However; as far as I’ve seen and heard; none of the horses he

drew in Samarkand; which he reached after a year’s travel on foot undaunted

by  snow  and  severe  weather;  had  clipped  nostrils。  For  him;  perfect  dream

horses were not the sturdy; powerful; victorious horses of the Mongols that he

came to know in his adulthood; they were the elegant Arab horses that he’d

sorrowfully left behind in his happy youth。 This is why for me the strange nose

of the horse made for Enishte’s book brought to mind neither Mongol horses

nor this custom the Mongols spread to Khorasan and Samarkand。”

As he spoke; Master Osman looked now at the book and now at us; as if he

could see only those things he conjured in his mind’s eye。

“Besides horses with clipped noses and Chinese painting; the devils in this

book are another thing brought with the Mongol hordes to Persia and thence

all  the  way  here  to  Istanbul。  You’ve  probably  heard  how  these  demons  are

ambassadors of evil dispatched by dark forces from deep beneath the ground

to snatch away human lives and whatever we deem valuable and how they’re

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bent  on  carrying  us  off  to  their  underworld  of  blackness  and  death。  In  this

underground realm everything; whether cloud; tree; object; dog or book; has a

soul and speaks。”

“Quite  so;”  said  the  elderly  dwarf。  “As  Allah  is  my  witness;  some  nights

when I’m locked in here; not only the spirits of the clocks; the Chinese plates

and the crystal bowls that chime constantly anyway; but the spirits of all the

rifles; swords; shields and bloody helmets grow restless and begin to converse

in  such  a  ruckus  that  the  Treasury  bees  the  swarming  field  of  an

apocalyptic battle。”

“The  Kalenderi  dervishes;  whose  pictures  we’ve  seen;  brought  this  belief

from  Khorasan  to  Persia;  and  later  all  the  way  to  Istanbul;”  said  Master

Osman。 “As Sultan Selim the Grim was plundering the Seven Heavens Palace

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