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Riza i-Abbasi

Two Lovers

Painted ca. 1630 in the royal studio
of Shah Abbas I  (1588-1629).

Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York.


Riza i-Abbasi

Two Lovers

Painted ca. 1630 in the royal studio of Shah Abbas I  (1588–1629).

Beautiful un-aging youths known as ghilman (sing: ghulam) are promised as attendants to the faithful in paradise, though the jurists (muftis) have concluded that sexual relations are not to be expected in the afterlife.


New York.

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