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An illustration of <n>Scheherazade</n> by <n>Edmund Dulac</n> for the 1907 book <n>Stories from the Arabian Nights</n>.

<n>A Princely Hunt, Folio from a Divan (Collected Works) of Jami</n> by <n>'Abd al-Karim al-Khwarazmi</n>, ca. 1490.

Illustration by <n>Virginia Frances Sterrett</n> from <n>Old French Fairy Tales</n> (1920).

An illustration by <n>Edmund Dulac</n> for <n>The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</n>, 1909.

A 16th-century <n>Persian miniature</n> of a <n>dervish</n> and the <n>Simorgh</n> from <n>Attar of Nishapur</n>'s poem.

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<n>The Sleeve of Night</n>, an illustration for "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by <n>Edmund Dulac</n>, 1907.

<n>The Snake Prince</n>, an illustration by <n>Henry Justice Ford</n> for <n>Andrew Lang</n>'s <n>The Olive Fairy Book</n> (1907).

A folio from <n>al-Rabghuzi</n>'s <n>Qisas al-Anbiya</n> (Stories of the Prophets), c. 1575.

An <n>Art Nouveau</n> illustration by <n>Edmund Dulac</n> for <n>Edgar Allan Poe</n>'s poem "The Bells," published in 1912.

<n>Habiballah of Sava</n>'s painting <n>The Concourse of the Birds</n> (c. 1600), from a manuscript of <n>Farid al-Din `Attar</n>'s poem.

<n>The Snake Queen</n> (1957), an illustration by <n>Gustaf Tenggren</n> from <n>Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights</n>.