Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. The Contributors xiii
5. Series Editor’s Foreword xvii
6. Acknowledgements xviii
7. INTRODUCTION: Celebrating the Career, Writings and Exhibitions of Linda Komaroff 1
8. CHAPTER 1 A Mongol Historian Looks at Art: Abu’l-Qasim Qashani’s Description of Sultaniyya 6
9. CHAPTER 2 From Memory to Drawing: The Evolution of Islamic Design 29
10. CHAPTER 3 A Reflection on Armour of Then and Now 50
11. CHAPTER 4 Allusive Expressions: Siah Armajani’s Persian-period Collages (1957–64) 64
12. CHAPTER 5 Ceramic Decals on Minaʾi Wares 90
13. CHAPTER 6 An Overview of Islamic Artefacts Brought to Pre-Modern Japan: Glass, Ceramics, Textiles, Metalwork and Calligraphy 111
14. CHAPTER 7 The Baysunghur Kutubkhana and Emulation in the Arts of the Book 124
15. CHAPTER 8 Shahpour Pouyan 142
16. CHAPTER 9 Musical Life in Seventeenth-century Isfahan 159
17. CHAPTER 10 Gift-giving between Iran and Iberia from Timur to Tahmasp 184
18. CHAPTER 11 A Speculation on the Design of the Ardabil Carpets 209
19. CHAPTER 12 Minaʾi from Fustat: An Iranian Spoke in a Fatimid Ceramic Wheel 239
20. CHAPTER 13 A Queer Palimpsest: Historical Layers in Salman Toor’s The Bar on East 13th Street 249
21. Appendix: Linda Komaroff: Selected Bibliography 266
22. Index 270