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

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.

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.