Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters (Muqarnas, Supplements, 10)

Thackston, Wheeler

ISBN 10: 9004259627 / ISBN 13: 9789004259621

Published by Brill, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters (Muqarnas, Supplements, 10)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004259627
• ISBN 13: 9789004259621
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume contains album prefaces in the original Persian version with English translation, miscellaneous documents relating to calligraphers and painters, and specimens of travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.

About the Author

Wheeler M. Thackston, (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974) is Professor of the Practice in Persian and other Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University. He teaches Persian and Arabic, including Levantine Arabic. His research interests include Persian, Kurdish, Chagata, Turkish and Arabic language, literature, and art.