Preface and acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Note to the Reader

1. The Visual Culture of Greater Iran: Some Examples of Kushano-Sasanian Art, Judith A. Lerner

2. The Late Sasanian Figurative Capitals at Taq-i Bustan: Proposals Regarding Identification and Origins, Matteo Compareti

3. Architecture of the Wider Persian World: From Central Asia to Western Anatolia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Richard Piran McClary

4. From Acquisition to Display: The Reception of Chinese Ceramics in the Pre-modern Persian World, Yuka Kadoi

5. Devotion and Protection: Four Amuletic Scrolls from Safavid Persia, Tobias Nünlist

6. The Minarets of Hurmuzgan, Iván Szántó

7. Persia, India or Indo-Persian? The Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Knotted Pile Carpets, Raquel Santos

8. The Calligraphic Art of Mishkin Qalam, Francesco Stermotich-Cappellari

9. The Kashan Mihrab in Berlin: A Historiography of Persian Lustreware, Markus Ritter

Contributors

Index