Cleveland Museum of Art
The sentinel in the employ of the Shah of Tabaristan prepares to sacrifice his son to the ghost of the Shah’s soul, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Second Night
c. 1560
The near sacrifice of the sentinel’s son parallels the Qur'an’s story of Abraham and Ishmael.
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