Resources

Further reading

Beach, Milo C. The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Mapin Publishing, 2012.

Blair, Sheila S. Islamic Calligraphy, pp. 270–315 and 428–75. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

“Calligraphy.” In Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, edited by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Vol. 1, pp. 348–349. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Fu, Shen, Glenn D. Lowry, and Ann Yonemura. From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy, pp. 128–45. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 1986.

Kambiz, Eslami. “‘Emad Hasani.” In Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Vol. 8, pp. 382–85. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1998.

Lowry, Glenn D., and Milo Cleveland Beach. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1988.

“Mir ‘Ali Husayni Haravi.” In Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, edited by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Vol. 2, pp. 536–37. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

“Mir ‘Ali Tabrizi.” In Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, edited by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Vol. 2, p. 537. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

“Mir ‘Imad.” In Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, edited by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Vol. 2, p. 537. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Roxburgh, David J. Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-century Iran. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Roxburgh, David J. The Persian Album, 1400–1600: From Dispersal to Collection. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Sawfat, Nabil F. The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy of the 14th to the 20th Centuries. Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. V. London: Nour Foundation, 1996.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Calligraphy and Islamic Culture. New York: New York University Press, 1984.

Soucek, Priscilla P. “The arts of calligraphy.” In Arts of the Book in Central Asia, 14th–16th Centuries, edited by Basil Gray, pp. 7–35. Paris: UNESCO, 1979.

Soucek, Priscilla P. “‘Ali Heravi.” In Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Vol. 1, pp. 861–65. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

Soucek, Priscilla P. “‘Ali Tabrizi.” In Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Vol. 1, p. 881. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

Soudavar, Abolala. Arts of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

“Sultan ‘Ali Mashhadi.” In Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, edited by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Vol. 3, pp. 256–57. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Thackston, Wheeler M. Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Thackston, Wheeler M. “Calligraphy in the Albums.” In Elaine Wright, Muraqqa‘: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Alexandria, VA: Art Services International, 2008.

Wright, Elaine. The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303–1452. Occasional Papers, n.s., vol. 3. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 2012.

Yusofi, Gholam-Hosayn. “Calligraphy.” In Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Vol. 4, pp. 696–704. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1991.

Further reading in Persian