A Shamed Man Who Lied About a Three-day Journey from Mecca to Nishapur

1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman)

15.5 cm 21 cm

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This illustration from Walters manuscript W.666 depicts a man embarrassed by his turban falling off to reveal his bald head. When he protests that his virtue is gone, Mansur replies that it was already gone when he previously lied about his miraculous three-day journey from Me...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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