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June 10, 2009
in Exhibitions
by Henry Matthews
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The Isfahan of Shah Abbas

The British Museum is showing a suberb exhibition on the reign of Shah Abbas and the city of Isfahan, the greatest manifestation of his long reign in the late 16th and early seventeenth century. He has been described as ruthless, but unlike Persian rulers of

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