Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Lisa Golombek and Maria Subtelny -- Foreword / Oleg Grabar -- Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran / Lisa Golombek -- The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to Ê¿Abbas I / Monika Gronke -- Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles / Birgitt Hoffmann -- Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarqand / R. G. Mukminova -- Aspects Littéraires et Idéologiques des Relations entre Aristocratie et Architecture à L'époque Timouride / Michele Bernardini -- The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi : Their Mutual Relationship / Eiji Mano -- Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and its Late Gothic Parallels / GüLru NecipoÄŸLu -- Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad / A. Adamova -- The Uses of Space in Timurid Painting / Robert Hillenbrand -- Miniatures in Historical Manuscripts from the Time of Shahrukh in the Topkapi Palace Museum / GüNar Inal -- The Manuscripts of Iskandar Sultan: Structure and Content / Priscilla P. Soucek -- Ibrahim-Sultan's Illustrated Zafarnama of 1436 and its Impact in the Muslim East / Eleanor Sims -- Persian Verses of Gold and Silver: The Inscriptions on Timurid Metalwork / Linda Komaroff -- Les Armures des Timourides, des Aqqoyunlus, et des Shirvanshahs / Ludvik Kalus -- Some Timurid Designs and their Far Eastern Connections / Yolande Crowe -- The Dynamics of Chinoiserie in Timurid and Early Safavid Ceramics / G. A. Bailey -- Sources from Fujian on Trade between China and Hurmuz in the Fifteenth Century / Chen Da-Sheng -- Sufism, ShiÊ¿ism, and Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Iran: The Ghazals of Asiri-i Lahiji / M. GlüNz -- Agriculture between Literary Tradition and Firsthand Experience: The Irshād al-ziraÊ¿a of Qasim b. Yusuf Abu Nasri Haravi / Jürgen Jakobi.

The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending roughly from the Euphrates to the Hindu Kush and to the Altai. Among the subjects covered were: 'Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran'; 'The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to ‘Abbas I'; 'Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles'; 'Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarkand'; 'The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi : Their Mutual Relationship'; 'Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels' and 'Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad.

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