Cleveland Museum of Art
The court jester meets a Zangi dancing with joy, and learns from him that the cause of his happiness is his assignation with a woman who is the jester’s own wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-second Night
c. 1560
The tale references stereotypes about Africans that were current in India and Iran when the text was written.
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