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hat his wife was portrayed with her old
husband。 What gnawed at him was this: Since he wasn’t painted in the old
legend in that splendid book; he wouldn’t be able to join the ranks of the
immortals with his wife。 This worm of doubt ate at Fahir Shah for five years;
and at the end of a blissful night of copious lovemaking with Neriman;
candlestick in hand; he entered the library like a mon thief; opened the
volume of Leyla and Mejnun; and in place of the face of Neriman’s late
husband; drew his own。 Like many khans who had a love for illustrating and
painting; however; he was an amateur artist and couldn’t portray himself very
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well。 In the morning; when his librarian opened the book on a suspicion of
tampering and beheld another figure in place of the late Selahattin Khan; next
to Neriman…faced Leyla; rather than identifying it as Fahir Shah; he announced
that it was Fahir Shah’s archenemy; the young and handsome Abdullah Shah。
This gossip provoked Fahir Shah’s soldiers and emboldened Abdullah Shah; the
young and aggressive new ruler of the neighboring country; who;
subsequently; in his first campaign; defeated; captured and killed Fahir Shah;
established his own sovereignty over his enemy’s library and harem and
became the new husband of the eternally beautiful Neriman Sultan。
DJIM
The miniaturists of Istanbul recount the legend of Tall Mehmet—known as
Muhammad Khorasani in Persia—mostly as an example of long life and
blindness。 However; the legend of Tall Mehmet is essentially
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