{"id":119,"date":"2010-06-21T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?p=119"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:10:10","slug":"professor-sunil-sharma-co-curates-three-exhibitions-celebrating-the-persian-book-of-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/2010\/06\/21\/professor-sunil-sharma-co-curates-three-exhibitions-celebrating-the-persian-book-of-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Sunil Sharma co-curates three exhibitions celebrating the Persian &#8220;Book of Kings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Shahnama, or &#8220;Book of Kings,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Romantic Interludes:\u00a0Women in Firdawsi&#8217;s <em>Shahnam<\/em><em>a<\/em><br \/>\nMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston<br \/>\nApril 24, 2010 &#8211; January 16, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Heroic Gestes:\u00a0Epic Tales from Firdawsi&#8217;s <em>Shahnam<\/em><em>a<\/em><br \/>\nHarvard Art Museum<br \/>\nJune 18 &#8211; November 27, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Between Manuscripts and Printing:\u00a0Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi&#8217;s <em>Shahnam<\/em><em>a<\/em><br \/>\nHoughton Library,\u00a0Harvard University<br \/>\nJuly 6 &#8211; November 24, 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shahnama, or &#8220;Book of Kings,&#8221; 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:\u00a0Women in Firdawsi&#8217;s Shahnama Museum of Fine Arts, Boston April 24, 2010 &#8211; January 16, 2011 Heroic Gestes:\u00a0Epic Tales from Firdawsi&#8217;s Shahnama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22870,22881],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15858,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/15858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}