Lessons

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  Authenticity and the Shāhnāma (Persian)

  Lesson 18 The Shāhnāma or Book of Kings by Manṣūr Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī Ṭūsī narrates the legendary ...

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  The Demise of the Professional Copyist

  Lesson 25 This lesson explores the twilight of Arabic manuscript production in the early twentieth c...

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  "Mouvance" or a fair draft

  Lesson 6 The words kāna al-farāgh min bayḍa (or mubayyaḍa) in a colophon are usually translated as...