Word: fitna
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Stars by Day, Light by Night. As fabulous as the workmanship is the entrancing world of fantasy that the Persian miniaturists had to work with. Take the old legend about the lovely heroine Fitna, who poked fun at the king's archery. "Practice makes perfect," she sniped, as he executed one of his master shots. Some bards had it that the king in a pique then rode his camel over her, but others thought Fitna too clever for such an ending. To get back in his good graces, the story goes, she arranged for the king to catch...