Timurid Art and Culture

Lisa Golombek, Ph.D. (1968) University of Michigan, is Curator Emeritus (Royal Ontario Museum) and Professor Emeritus (University of Toronto). Her publications on Islamic art range from architecture to portable objects and include The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan (Princeton University Press 1988), Tamerlane’s Tableware (ROM press 1996) and Persian Pottery in the First Global Age (BRILL 2014)Maria E. Subtelny, PhD (1979) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. She has published extensively on the Timurids and on medieval Iranian and Central Asian cultural history. Her book Le monde est un jardin: Aspects de l’histoire culturelle de l’Iran médiéval (Paris, 2002) received the Saidi–Sirjani Book Award. Recent publications are Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran (BRILL, 2007); “Visionary Rose: Metaphorical Interpretation of Horticultural Practice in Medieval Persian Mysticism” (2007) and “The Traces of the Traces: Reflections of the Garden in the Persian Mystical Imagination” (2008)

• Foreword LISA GOLOMBEK, Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century IranMONIKA GRONKE, The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to ʿAbbas IBIRGITT HOFFMANN, Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles R. G. MUKMINOVA, Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarqand MICHELE BERNARDINI, Aspects littéraires et idéologiques des relations entre aristocratie et architecture à L'époque timouride EIJI MANO, The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi: Their Mutual RelationshipGÜLRU NECIPOĞLU, Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels A. ADAMOVA, Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad ROBERT HILLENBRAND, The Uses of Space in Timurid Painting GÜNER INAL, Miniatures in Historical Manuscripts from the Time of Shahrukh in the Topkapi Palace Museum PRISCILLA P. SOUCEK, The Manuscripts of lskandar Sultan: Structure and Content ELEANOR SIMS, Ibrahim-Sultan's Illustrated Zafarnama of 1436 and Its Impact in the Muslim East LINDA KOMAROFF, Persian Verses of Gold and Silver: The Inscriptions on Timurid Metalwork LUDVIK KALUS, Les Armures des Timourides, des Aqqoyunlus, et des Shirvanshahs YOLANDE CROWE, Some Timurid Designs and Their Far Eastern Connections G. A. BAILEY, The Dynamics of Chinoiserie in Timurid and Early Safavid Ceramics CHEN DA-SHENG, Sources from Fujian on Trade between China and Hurmuz in the Fifteenth Century M. GLUNZ, Sufism, Shiʿism, and Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Iran: The Ghazals of Asiri-i Lahiji JÜRGEN JAKOBI, Agriculture between Literary Tradition and Firsthand Experience: The lrshād al-ziraʿa of Qasim b. Yusuf Abu Nasri Haravi