Featuring more than 60 visually stunning works on loan from the historic Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford as well as works from the State Library of Victoria and other local collections. Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, is the largest exhibition of Persian manuscripts to be held in Australia.

This is the first time that the illustrations in the manuscript—recently unbound and conserved—have all been exhibited together.

“Why seekest thou to know Rostam the Pahlavān? Surely thou wilt know him in battle, and he shall strike thee dumb, and quell thy pride of youth. Yet I will not show him unto thee.“

Nader Davoodi is an award winning artist, photographer, photojournalist and publisher.  His work has at many times captured the zeitgeist of contemporary Iran. Nader Davoodi’s latest works visualise the poetry of the Mo’jjam History by the 13th century A.D. Iranian poet Ghazvini.  The compilations in the Mojj’am History chronicle Iran’s Shahs (kings) from the reign [...]

Check out this animated clip from the comic book series Rostam: Tales From the Shanameh by Hyperwerks. The Shahnameh (book of kings) which was “written by Ferdowsi over 1000 years ago [is about a] Perisan mythological hero, Rostam [who] battles his son, Sohrab.”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24j7F0Vlk8U] Check out this animated clip from the comic book series Rostam: Tales From the Shanameh by Hyperwerks.