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The Story of Zahra, 1980 (حكاية زهرة) The Persian Carpet in Arabic Short Stories, 1983; Scent of a Gazelle, 1988 (مسك الغزال) Mail from Beirut, 1992 (بريد بيروت) I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops, 1994 (أكنس الشمس عن السطوح)
A Persian carpet (Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), [1] or Iranian carpet is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in Iran ...
The Poot is a 40-min. documentary film by Elham Asadi about Persian carpets. It was selected and screened at Amsterdam International Documentary Films Festival in November 2009. The Poot won the Jury Award for Best Short at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC, USA.
Apart from the Scheherazade frame story, several other tales have Persian origins, although it is unclear how they entered the collection. [36] These stories include the cycle of "King Jali'ad and his Wazir Shimas" and "The Ten Wazirs or the History of King Azadbakht and his Son" (derived from the seventh-century Persian Bakhtiyārnāma). [37]
One Thousand and One Nights (Persian: هزار و یک شب) is a medieval folk tale collection which tells the story of Scheherazade (Persian: شهرزاد Šahrzād), a Sassanid queen who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, King Shahryar (Persian: شهریار Šahryār), to delay her execution. The stories are told ...
Shrine of John the Baptist in the Umayyad Mosque.. The poem comes in the Gulistan at the end of story ten of the first chapter "On the Conduct of Kings". In this story Saʿdi claims to have been praying at the tomb of John the Baptist in the Great Mosque in Damascus, when he gave advice to an unnamed king who requested Saʿdi to add his prayers to his own as he was afraid of a powerful enemy.
A Persian caravan. Duckworth, London 1928. (A collection of individual stories with exotic characters, inspired by Edwards' encounters in Persia.) The Persian carpet: A survey of the carpet-weaving industry of Persia. Duckworth, London, 1953.
The London Ardabil Carpet, 34 ft 3 in × 17 ft 6 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (1,044 cm × 535.5 cm). The carpet in Los Angeles, 23 ft 7 in × 13 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (718.82 cm × 400.05 cm). The Ardabil Carpet (or Ardebil Carpet) is the name of two different famous Persian carpets, [1] the larger and better-known now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London ...