Studies in Islamic Painting, Epigraphy and Decorative Arts

Bernard O’Kane is Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Timurid Architecture in Khurasan (1987), Studies in Persian Art and Architecture (1996) and Early Persian Painting (2003); and the editor of Treasures of Islamic Art in the Museums of Cairo (2006).

• 1. The Egyptian Art of Ṭirāz in Fatimid Times; 2. Monumental Calligraphy in Fatimid Egypt: Epigraphy in Stone, Stucco, and Wood; 3. The Great Jalayirid Shahnama; 4. Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo; 5. A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids; 6. The Look of Language; 7. Text and Paintings in the al-Wāsiṭī Maqāmāt; 8. Kalila o Demna iii. Illustrations in Manuscripts; 9. Documentation of the Inscriptions in the Historic Zone of Cairo; 10. The Uses of Persian on Monumental Epigraphy in Turkey; 11. Reconciliation or Estrangement? Colophon and Paintings in the TIEM Ẓafarnāma and Some Other Controversial Manuscripts; 12. The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts; 13. The Iconography of the Shahnama, Ms. tarikh farisī 73, Dar al-Kutub, Cairo (796/13934); 14. Introduction to Islamic Art, Art of the Ayyubids and Bahri Mamluks and Iranian Art; 15. Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture; 16. Siyah Qalam: The Jalayirid Connections; 17. The Bihbihani Anthology and Its Antecedents; 18. Lifting the Veil from the Face of Persian Painting; 19. Rock Faces and Rock Figures in Persian Painting.