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Yet I’m so very content here! As we console ourselves with twenty…five years

of memories we’re reminded not of the animosities; but of the beauties and

the  pleasures  of  painting。  There’s  also  something  in  our  sitting  here  with  a

sense of the impending end of the world; caressing each other with tear…filled

eyes as we remember the beauty of bygone days; that recalls harem women。

I’ve  taken  this  parison  from  Abu  Said  of  Kirman  who  included  the

stories  of  the  old  masters  of  Shiraz  and  Herat  in  his  History  of  the  sons  of

Tamerlane。 Thirty years ago; Jihan Shah; ruler of the Blacksheep; came to the

East where he routed the small armies and ravaged the lands of the Timurid

khans  and  shahs  who  were  fighting  among  themselves。  With  his  victorious

Turkmen hordes; he passed through the whole of Persia into the East; finally; at

Astarabad;   he   defeated   Ibrahim;   the   grandson   of   Shah   Ruh   who   was

Tamerlane’s son; he then took Gorgan and sent his armies against the fortress

of Herat。 According to the historian from Kirman; this devastation; not only to

Persia;  but  to  the  heretofore  undefeated  power  of  the  House  of  Tamerlane;

which had ruled over half the world from Hindustan to Byzantium for half a

century;  caused  such  a  tempest  of  destruction  that  pandemonium  reigned

over the men and women in the besieged fortress of Herat。 The historian Abu

Said  reminds  the  reader  with  perverse  pleasure  how  Jihan  Shah  of  the

Blacksheep mercilessly killed everyone who was a descendant of Tamerlane in

the fortresses he conquered; how he selectively culled women from the harems

of shahs and princes and added them to his own harem; and how he pitilessly

separated  miniaturist  from  miniaturist  and  cruelly  forced  most  of  them  to

serve  as  apprentices  to  his  own  master  illuminators。  At  this  point  in  his

History; he turns his attentions from the shah and his warriors who tried to

repel the enemy from the crenellated towers of the fortress; to the miniaturists

among  their  pens  and  paints  in  the  workshop  awaiting  the  terrifying

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culmination of the siege whose oute was long evident。 He lists the names

of the artists; declaring one after another how they were world…renowned and

would never be forgotten; and these illuminators; all of whom; like the women

of the shah’s harem; have since been forgotten; embraced each other and wept;

unable to do anything but recall their former days of bliss。

We too; like melancholy harem women; reminisced about the gifts of fur…

lined caftans and purses full of money that the Sultan would present to us in

reciprocation for the colorful decorated boxes; mirrors and plates; embellished

ostrich  eggs;  cut…paper  work;  single…lea

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