Professor Sunil Sharma co-curates three exhibitions celebrating the Persian “Book of Kings”

The Shahnama, or “Book of Kings,” is an epic Persian poem completed 1,000 years ago. Three related exhibitions in Boston and Cambridge celebrate the millennium of the completion of this great work.

Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi’s Shahnama
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
April 24, 2010 – January 16, 2011

Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi’s Shahnama
Harvard Art Museum
June 18 – November 27, 2010

Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi’s Shahnama
Houghton Library, Harvard University
July 6 – November 24, 2010