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.

• CONTENTS PrefaceALBUMS* Shah Tahmasp Album, İÜK F.1422, Preface by Shahqulï Khalifa Muhrdar * Bahram Mirza Album, TSM H.2154, Preface by Dost-Muhammad * Amir Husayn Beg Album, TSM H.2151, Preface by Mâlik Daylami * Preface to an Album by Khwaja Abdullah Marwarid, TSM H.2156 * Amir Ghayb Beg Album, TSM H.2161, Preface by Mir Sayyid-Ahmad An Ottoman Album, ÖNB Cod. Mixt. 313, Preface by Cenderecizade Mehmed * Shah Isma'il II Album, TSM H.2138, Preface by Shamsuddin Muhammad Wasfi * Preface to a Safavid Album, TSM H.2157, Copied by Muhammad-Muhsin * Wali-Muhammad Khan Album, TSM H.2137, Preface Copied by Muhammad-Salih Preface to a Mughal Album, MMA 55.121.10, Composed by Mir Ali ai-Husayni * An Album Made by Kamaluddin Bihzad, Preface by Khwandamir SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALSArzadasht, H.2153, fol. 98a Miscellaneous Documents Ghiyathuddin Naqqash, Report to Mirza Baysunghur on the Timurid Legation to the Ming Court at PekingKamaluddin Abdui-Razzaq Samarqandi, Mission to Calicut and Vijayanagar Anonymous Synoptic Account of the Timurid House, TSM B.411, fol. 159aWorks Cited Index