Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Ph.D. (2012, Delhi University), is a calligrapher and an independent scholar. He has published several books including Zar-Afshan: A Dictionary of Terms Relating to Calligraphy, Ornamentation, and the Making of Manuscripts as Found in Classical Persian Poetry (Tehran, 2013).Shervin Farridnejad, Ph.D. (2014, Georg-August University of Göttingen), is a calligrapher, illuminator and professor of ancient and classical Iranian Studies at the University of Hamburg. He has published monographs, and articles most notably on the Judeo-Persian and Zoroastrian iconography, literature and manuscript cultures, among others Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus (Harrassowitz, 2018).

• Editor’s PrefaceAuthor’s NoteTranslator’s NoteList of IllustrationsNotes on Alphabetical Order, Pronunciation, Transcription and DatesTranscription TablesAbbreviationsThe Persian Treatises as Primary Sources on Iranian CalligraphyآابپتثجچحخدذرزسشصضطظعغفقکگلمنوهیAppendix 1: Map of Greater IranAppendix 2: Map of the Persianate WorldAppendix 3: Major Islamic DynastiesBibliography of Cited, Selected Related Works, and AbbreviationsIndex of Personal and Historical NamesIndex of Technical Notions, Materials and TermsGeneral Index

Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Ph.D. (2012, Delhi University), is a calligrapher and an independent scholar. He has published several books including Zar-Afshan: A Dictionary of Terms Relating to Calligraphy, Ornamentation, and the Making of Manuscripts as Found in Classical Persian Poetry (Tehran, 2013).Shervin Farridnejad, Ph.D. (2014, Georg-August University of Göttingen), is a calligrapher, illuminator and professor of ancient and classical Iranian Studies at the University of Hamburg. He has published monographs, and articles most notably on the Judeo-Persian and Zoroastrian iconography, literature and manuscript cultures, among others Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus (Harrassowitz, 2018).

• Editor’s PrefaceAuthor’s NoteTranslator’s NoteList of IllustrationsNotes on Alphabetical Order, Pronunciation, Transcription and DatesTranscription TablesAbbreviationsThe Persian Treatises as Primary Sources on Iranian CalligraphyآابپتثجچحخدذرزسشصضطظعغفقکگلمنوهیAppendix 1: Map of Greater IranAppendix 2: Map of the Persianate WorldAppendix 3: Major Islamic DynastiesBibliography of Cited, Selected Related Works, and AbbreviationsIndex of Personal and Historical NamesIndex of Technical Notions, Materials and TermsGeneral Index