Persian painting : from the Mongols to the Qajars : studies in honour of Basil W. Robinson / edited by Robert Hillenbrand.

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, 2000.

xx, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

B.W. Robinson at the Victoria and Albert Museum / Claude Blair -- A copy of the Divan of Mir ʻAli Shir Nava'i of the late eighteenth century in the Lund University Library and the Kashmiri School of miniature painting / Karin Ådahl -- On the attribution of Persian paintings and drawings of the time of Shah ʻAbbas I : seals and attributory inscriptions / Adel T. Adamova -- Beyond the pale : meaning in the margin / Barbara Brend -- The Ahmed Karahisari Qur'an in the Topkapi Palace Library in Istanbul / Filiz Çağman -- The pen or the brush? An inquiry into the technique of late Safavid drawings / Sheila Canby -- The Qajar court painter Yahya Ghaffari : his life and times / Layla S. Diba -- Gold in the pictorial language of Indian and Central Asian book painting / Larisa Dodkhudoeva -- Ibrahim-Sultan's anthology of prose texts / Ernst J. Grube -- The hundred and one paintings of Ibrahim-Sultan / Eleanor Sims -- Images of Muhammad in al-Biruni's Chronology of Ancient Nations / Robert Hillenbrand -- The name of a painter who illustrated the World History of Rashid al-Din / Anatoli Ivanov -- The Anthology of a Sufi prince from Bokhara / Assadullah Souren, Melikian-Chirvani -- The Chester Beatty Süleymânnâme again / Michael Rogers -- The illustrated manuscripts of Athar al-Muzaffar : a history of the Prophet / Karin Rührdanz -- A reconstruction and preliminary account of the 1341 Shahnama with some further thoughts on early Shahnama illustration / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Ghiyath al-Din ʻAli-yi Naqshband and an episode in the life of Sadiqi Beg / Robert Skelton -- Supplement : the sins of Sadiqi's old age / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- The Ann Arbor Shahnama and its importance / Priscilla P. Soucek -- Habib Allah / Marie L. Swietochowski -- Worldly and otherworldly love in Safavi painting / Anthony Welch -- Two eminences observed : a drawing by Mirza-ʻAli / Stuart Cary Welch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.