Hami Rahmanian's shadow puppet retelling of the classic Iranian story "Shahnameh," will hold another set of performances following its feature at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
and one absolutely spectacular piece is a little gold chariot. and you ll see that it consists of lots of tiny parts which have been soldered together. again, it s a technological masterpiece. the ancient world ended with the arab conquest of persia in the seventh century. islam gradually became the dominant religion. the second section of the exhibition is about the islamic period. it begins with a section on the shahnameh. this is a very important part of the exhibition, which links antiquity with the islamic period
in a very forceful way. you can call it the first great work of persian literature after the islamic conquest, when persian had begun to be written in the arabic alphabet. it preserved much of the vocabulary and grammar of middle persian, which was the language used by the sasanians. the rulers of islamic iran, from the 14th century onwards, became very interested in the shahnameh. it almost became a necessary part of the equipment of a future ruler, to be given a shahnameh, which provided as a model for the kings of the present based on what had happened in the past. and of course, at the same time, it preserved of the ideas of iran as a country with an enormously long history. in the 19th century, the v&a began to collect evidence for world architecture through photography. but of course, the tile work