Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic

Sheila S. Blair is the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art and the Boston College and Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. Jonathan M. Bloom is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of fifteen books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Islamic art and architecture, including the art of the Fatimid dynasty, and the history of paper. He and his wife and colleague Sheila Blair edited the prize-winning 3-volume Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (2009) and organize the Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposia on Islamic Art and Culture. Sandra Williams, is Assistant Curator, Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and specializes in the arts of the Persianate world.

• List of Figures The Contributors Series Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Celebrating the Career, Writings and Exhibitions of Linda Komaroff CHAPTER 1 A Mongol Historian Looks at Art: Abu’l Qasim Kashani’s Description of Sultaniyya Sheila Blair and Wheeler M. ThackstonCHAPTER 2 From Memory to Drawing: The Evolution of Islamic DesignJonathan M. BloomCHAPTER 3 A Reflection on Armour of Then and Now Filiz Çakır Phillip CHAPTER 4 Allusive Expressions: Siah Armajani’s Persian-period Collages (1957–1964)Maryam EkhtiarCHAPTER 5 Ceramic Decals on Minaʾi Wares John HirxCHAPTER 6 An Overview of Islamic Artefacts Brought to Pre-Modern Japan: Glass, Ceramics, Textiles, Metalwork and Calligraphy Tomoko MasuyaCHAPTER 7 The Baysunghur Kutubkhana and Emulation in the Arts of the Book Bernard O’KaneCHAPTER 8 Shahpour PouyanVenetia PorterCHAPTER 9 Musical Life in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan Amir Hosein Pourjavady and Shadi Shafiei JavadiCHAPTER 10 Gift-giving between Iran and Iberia from Timur to Tahmasp Marianna Shreve SimpsonCHAPTER 11 A Speculation on the Design of the Ardabil Carpets Tim StanleyCHAPTER 12 Minaʾi from Fustat: An Iranian Spoke in a Fatimid Ceramic Wheel Oliver WatsonCHAPTER 13 A Queer Palimpsest: Historical Layers in Salman Toor’s The Bar on East 13th Street Sandra S. WilliamsAppendix: Linda Komaroff: Selected Bibliography Inde

"'his volume’s rich harvest of papers faithfully mirrors the remarkably diverse range of interests from Iberia to Japan which has marked Linda Komaroff’s distinguished career both as curator and as research scholar. We move from Mongol art to metalwork and music, from ceramics and carpets to book painting, gift-giving and modern Persian art: infinite riches in a little room.'