Razi playing a trick to cure the Samanid King, Folio from a manuscript of Nigaristan

Author: Ahmad

1573-74 CE/980 AH/AH 980

Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Aga Khan Museum

A scene depicts a man in a red and green robe holding a sword, facing another man kneeling on a blue mat. Above, three figures are shown in a bathhouse setting. A scene depicts a man in a red and green robe holding a sword, facing another man kneeling on a blue mat. Above, three figures are shown in a bathhouse setting. Further Reading The miniature painting shows two bath scenes stacked on top of each other. Each scene is divided into three segments, with two narrow segments showing the building’s façade. The main action takes place in the lower bath scene. It illustrates an anecdote about the Samanid king Mansur ibn Nuh (r. 961–76), who suffered from a chronic pain in the joints that made it impossible to move. When his illness is declared uncurable by the court doctors, Muha