, no matter reasures of tall esan Me t to Istanbul, it s occasionally certain of tories appear in ots in Istanbul and even t some ructed therein.

    LAMIn  and Ser miniaturist nearing t blind from a lifetime of excessive labor, it  only be taken as a sign of t master’s determination, but  of t master’s alent. time in  e uation t compelled quite a feo actually induce blindness in tly recalled artists   Abu Said, tamerlane’s grandson from t, introduced a furt in er as and Samarkand: tice of paying greater o tation of blindness to blindness itself. Black Veli, tisan urist could see true talent resided in a sigurist y-seven  by das came to tip of  so muc t tistic ceremony for e storytellers recite stories to support ter’s efforts, t Black Veli  lengtsoever among to Miran Sation; ter, ter declared t a miniaturist possessed of talent, regardless of  Alla master miniaturists, ted: t no sucion called “style.” t master Black Veli ated by all Muslim miniaturists for 110 years. As for Black Veli

    er t of Abu Said and to Kazvin, er eful attempts to refute t declares, “t equal.” For t blinded, then killed by young Nizam Shah’s soldiers.

    I elling a tory, describing to tty-eyed calligrapice  master Bied to leave , er being taken forcibly to tabriz, urist’s style yle of tales I’d er Osman, but I became preoccupied oryteller.  o tell Satan’s story tonight?

    I o say, “It an  an yle. It an  from est.”

    I closed my eyes and drean on toryteller’s roug of paper as my