Image: Iranischer Meister 001

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Description: Iskandar (Alexander the Great) oversees the building of the wall to fend off the Yajuj and Majuj people (Gog and Magog). This artist depicts a group of demons (div) helping in the task, even though that is not normally in the story.[2] A miniature from a Book of Divinations (Falnama) [of Ja'far al-Sadiq[1]] made for Tahmasp I (r. 1524–76)[2]
Title: "Iskandar Oversees the Building of the Wall"[2]
Credit: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
Author: attributable to 'Abd al-'Aziz[1]
Permission: [1]
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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