Mirror of the Invisible World Tales from the KHAMSEH of NIZAMI is a book by Peter j. Chelkowski whith an essay by Prisscilla P. Soucek and forward by Richard Ettinghausen. Introduction of this book Next to Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh, the Khamseh or "Quintet" of Nizami offered the best opportunity for a wide-ranging series of illustrations to the Iranian miniaturist. Although these paintings lacked the typical iconographic formulas of the epic heroic subjects such ...