BIBLIOGRAPHY

This is the Bibliography I give to my students. Here for your convenience. Updated April 2024, and now a super eclectic mix pulled from my PhD research bibliography. No longer in any order so I recommend you close your eyes and pick things at random, fa'l- style:

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Any illustrated Shahnamehs (the British Library is a good source as well as worldwide museums and collections of Islamic art); I particularly recommend the David Collection in Copenhagen as a rich source of Islamic art and beautiful museum presentation with free entry

GOOD BACKGROUND READING

Islam and Muslim Art (Translated from the French by Robert Erich Wolf) Hardcover – 1979 by Alexandre Papadopoulo (Author) Harry N. Abrams (1979)

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk - good fictional introduction to the world and context of miniature painters

Persian Paintings Coloring Book (Persian) Paperback – 12 Jan 2016 by Nashre Vohuman (Author, Producer) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Clr Csm edition (12 Jan. 2016), in Persian language – why not? Might get you used to working with your hands

Persian Miniature Designs (International Design Library) Paperback – 1 Oct 1983 by Stephenson Mojdeh (Author) Stemmer House Publishers Inc.,U.S. (1 Oct. 1983) – in a similar vein; a sourcebook

Rahmanian, Hamid., (2013). Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, Ferdowsi. New York: The Quantuck Lane Press.

Rahmanian, Hamid and Arizpe, Simon., (2021). Zahhak: La Légende du Roi Serpent. France: Les Rêveurs.

Derrida, Jacques., (1987). The Truth in Painting. Translated by Geoffrey Bennington & Ian McLeod. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. First published as La Vérité en Peinture. (1978). Paris: Flammarion. Includes a chapter on the Parergon - in case anyone can read this and explain it to me, up for discussion!

SCHOLARLY EDITIONS

Mughal Miniatures (Eastern Art) Paperback – 1 Sep 2006 by J M Rogers Interlink Books (1 Sept. 2006)

Paintings from Mughal India Paperback – 30 Aug 2013 by Andrew Topsfield The Bodleian Library (30 Aug. 2013)

The Mughals: Life, Art and Culture: Mughal Manuscripts and Paintings in the British Library Paperback – Illustrated, 24 Sep 2014 by J. P. Losty (Author), Malini Roy (Author), John Falconer (Author), Ursula Sims-Williams (Author), Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley (Author) Roli Books (24 Sept. 2014)

Persian Painting (Eastern Art) Paperback – 7 Jun 1993 by Sheila Canby British Museum Press; 01 edition (7 Jun. 1993)

Persian Painting Paperback – 22 Feb 1996 by Stuart Cary Welch (Author) George Braziller Inc; New edition edition (22 Feb. 1996)

Persian Painting (Treasures of Asia) Paperback – 7 Jul 1977 by Basil Gray Macmillan (7 July 1977) – easy read

Early Persian Painting: Kalila Wa Dimna Manuscripts of the Late 14th Century Hardcover – 21 Feb 2003 by Bernard O'Kane (Author) I.B.Tauris (21 Feb. 2003)

Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Hardcover – 20 Sep 2011 by John Guy (Author), Jorrit Britschgi (Author) Yale University Press (20 Sept. 2011)

For the Privileged Few: Islamic Miniature Painting from the David Collection Hardcover – 30 Jul 2008 by Kjeld Von Folsach Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (30 July 2008)

Persian Paintings: From Monguls to the Qajars (Pembroke Persian Papers Series) Hardcover – 22 Feb 2001 by Robert Hillenbrand (Editor) I.B.Tauris (22 Feb. 2001)

Peerless Images: Persian Painting and Its Sources Hardcover – 4 Oct 2002 by Eleanor Sims (Author), Boris I. Marshak (Author), Ernst J. Grube (Author), Hossein Amirsadeghi (Foreword) Yale University Press; 1st edition (4 Oct. 2002) - classic

Islamic miniature painting : Topkapi Saray Museum / by Filiz Cagman, Zeren Tanindi Unknown Binding – 1979

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700 - 1900 Hardcover– 7 Oct 2013 by Hongzing Zhang (Editor) V & A Publishing; 01 edition (7 Oct. 2013) – excellent catalogue and introduction to Chinese painting, and an interesting read

Wonders of the age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576 Paperback – 1 Jan 1979 by Stuart Cary Welch (Author) Fogg Art Museum (1979) - classic

Princes, Poets and Paladins: Islamic and Indian Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Hardcover – 1 Jan 1998 by Sheila R. Canby (Author) British Museum Press; 01 edition (Jan. 1998) - classic

Mostly Miniatures: An Introduction to Persian Painting Paperback – 15 Jan 2002 by Oleg Grabar Princeton University Press (15 Jan. 2002)

The Emperor's Album: Images of Mughal India Hardcover – 1 Jan 1968 by Annemarie Schimmel (Author), Marie Swietochoski (Author), W. M. Thackston(Author), Stuart Cary Welch (Author) Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; 01 edition (1 Jan. 1968)

The King of the World: The Padshahnama - An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle Hardcover – 3 Mar 1997 by Milo Cleveland Beach (Author), W. M. Thackston (Author), Ebba Koch(Author) Thames & Hudson Ltd; 01 edition (3 Mar. 1997) – big and heavy book with nice image reproductions

Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th Century Hardcover – Illustrated, 1 Aug 2009 by Oleg Grabar (Author) Prestel; 01 edition (1 Aug. 2009) – controversial scholar at PSTA but beautiful image reproductions

Levni., Surname, reproduced in Atıl, Esin., (1999). Levni and the Surname: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival. İstanbul: Koçbank.

Sultans of Mandu, The Ni’matnama. (The Sultan’s Book of Delights.) Translated by Norah M. Titley. London and New York: Routledge. 2005.

Sze, Mai-Mai., (1978). The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. Translated from the Chinese and edited by Mai-Mai Sze. Surrey, UK and New Jersey, US: Princeton University Press.

Adamova, Adel T. and Bayani, Manijeh., (2015). Persian Painting: The Arts of the Book and Portraiture. Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah. The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. London: Thames & Hudson.

And, Metin., (2020.) Forty Days and Forty Nights: Weddings, Festivals and Pageantry in the Ottoman Empire. Translated by Feyza Howell. Turkey: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari.

Azzam, Khaled, ed., (2013). Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands: Principles, Materials, Practice. The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts. London: Thames & Hudson.

Bahari, Ebadollah., (1997). Bihzad: Master of Persian Painting. London and New York: I. B. Tauris.

Barakat, Heba Nayel., (2017). Islamic Bookbinding. Malaysia: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia.

Barry, Michael., (2004). Figurative Art in Medieval Islam and the Riddle of Behzad of Herat. Paris: Flammarion.

Beach, Milo C., Fischer, Eberhard and Goswamy, B.N., (2015). Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1650 and1650-1900 (in 2 volumes). Artibus Asiae Publishers, Supplementum 48 I/II, dir. Britschgi, Jorrit. New Delhi: Niyogi Books.

Beach, Milo Cleveland and Koch, Ebba., (1997). King of the World – the Padshahnama: An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. London: Azimuth Editions.

Bloom, Jonathan M., (2001). Paper before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Brend, Barbara., (1995). The Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Nizami. London: The British Library.

Cahill, James.,

-       (1967). Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. USA: The Asia Society Ltd, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Catalogue of exhibition of the same name at University of California, Berkeley.

-       (1994). The Painter’s Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. Bampton Lectures in America no. 29. New York: Columbia University Press.

Camille, Michael., (1992). Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art. London: Reaktion Books.

Canby, Sheila R., (2009). Shah ‘Abbas: The Remaking of Iran. London: The British Museum.

Carboni, Stefano., (2015, this edition 2020). The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting: A Study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvini. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Deroche, François., (2015 AD/1436 AH). Islamic Codicology: an Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script. London: Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation. Diamond, Debra; Glynn, Catherine and Singh Jasol, Karni., (2009). Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jaipur. London: The British Museum Press.

Esin, Emel., (2019). Mehmed Siyah Kalem. Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi.

Farhad, Massumeh, with Bağcı, Serpil., (2009). Falnama: The Book of Omens. London: Thames & Hudson. Book catalogue accompanying exhibition of the same name at Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Haidar, Navina Najat and Sardar, Marika.,

-       (2011). Sultans of the South: Arts of India’s Deccan Courts, 1323-1687. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

-       (2015). Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Haldane, Duncan., (1983). Islamic Bookbindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. UK: World of Islam Festival Trust.

Harthan, John., (This edition 1988). Books Of Hours And Their Owners. London: Thames and Hudson.

İpşiroğlu, Mazhar Ş.,

-       (1984). Wind der Steppe. Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt.

-       (2017). Bozkır Rüzgârı Siyah Kalem. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları.

Goswamy, B. N.,

-       (2010). Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation. Ahmedabad: Sarabhai Foundation.

-       (2011). Nainsukh of Guler: A great Indian painter from a small hill-state. New Delhi: Niyogi Books.

-       (2016). The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100-1900. London: Thames & Hudson - thick but very readable and enjoyable book about the spirit of all painting, I'd say, with of course a focus on Indian painting, but a widely available and essential book. One of my favourites that I recommend everyone read cover to cover!

Goswamy, B. N, Losty, Jeremiah P., and Seyller, John.,(2014).  A Secret Garden: Indian Paintings from the Porret Collection. Zurich: Museum Rietberg.

Goswamy, B. N., and Fischer, Eberhard.,

-       (2009). Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India. New Delhi: Niyogi Books.

-       (2017). Pahari Paintings: The Horst Metzger Collection in the Museum Rietberg. New Delhi: Niyogi Books.

Grabar, Oleg.,

-       (1999). Mostly Miniatures: An Introduction to Persian Painting. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

-       (2009). Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th Century. Munich, Berlin, London and New York: Prestel.

Kim, Jinah., (2021). Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

Kwiatkowski, Will., (2005). The Eckstein Shahnama: An Ottoman Book of Kings. London: Sam Fogg.

Nishimura, Margot McIlwain., (2009). Images in the Margins. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.

O’Kane, Bernard., (2003). Early Persian Painting: Kalila and Dimna Manuscripts of the Late Fourteenth Century. London and New York: I.B.Tauris.

Rajabi, Mohammad Ali, curated by., (2005). Masterpieces of Persian Painting. Tehran, Iran: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

GENERAL READING

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan, Bloomsbury 2015 – highly recommended

Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study (World of Islam Fest. Pub. Co.) Hardcover – 1 Apr 1976 by Seyyed Hossein Nasr – very easy and absorbing read

Cennini, Cennino d’Andrea., (1933, 1954). Il Libro dell’Arte. The Craftsman’s Handbook. Translated by Daniel V. Thompson, Jr. New York: Dover Publications.

Shihāb Al-Dīn Al-Nuwayrī., The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. (A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World.) Edited, translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Elias Muhanna. London: Penguin. 2016.

Al-Hassani, Salim T. S., (2012). 1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilisation. 3rd edition. Washington DC: National Geographic.

Baty, Patrick., (2021). Nature’s Palette: A Colour Reference System from the Natural World. London: Thames & Hudson.

Bettelheim, Bruno., (1976). The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. London: Penguin.

Daftary, Farhad and Zulfikar, Hirji., (2018). Islam: An Illustrated Journey. London: Azimuth Editions in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Dalrymple, William, Khanna, Madhu and Gorlizki, Alexander., (2016). Magic Markings: Tantra, Jain & Ritual Art from India. London: Joost van den Bergh.

Dalrymple, William, Gooding, Mel, Whiles, Virginia, Slatoff, Zoë, Durvasula, Nicola, Masselos, Jim., (2019). Perfect Presence: Tantra, Jain and Ritual Art from India. London: Joost van den Bergh. Gardner, Iain. (2020). The Founder of Manichaeism: Rethinking the Life of Mani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Husain, Salma Yusuf., (2019).The Mughal Feast: Recipes from the Kitchen of Emperor Shah Jahan. A Transcreation of Nuskha-e-Shahjahani. New Delhi: Roli Books.

Marozzi, Justin., (2020). Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization. London: Penguin.

Mukhoty, Ira.,

-       (2017). Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth & History. New Delhi: Aleph.

-       (2018). Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire. New Delhi: Aleph.

Onat, Sema., (2017). Islamic Art of Illumination: Classical Tazhib from Ottoman to Contemporary Times. New Jersey, London, Frankfurt, Cairo: Blue Dome.

Parikh, Rachel., (2022). The Khalili Falnamah. London: The Nour Foundation.

Pollock, Sheldon., ed., and trans., (2016). A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics. New York: Columbia University Press.

Rapoport, Yossef., (2018-9). Women and Gender in Medieval Islam – Reader. London: Queen Mary University of London School of History.

Safi, Omid., (2018). Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. Translated and edited by Omid Safi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Sharma, Vijay., (2020). Painting in the Kangra Valley. New Delhi: Niyogi Books.

Stewart, Susan., (1993). On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Titley, Norah M.,

-       (1979). Sports and Pastimes: Scenes from Turkish, Persian and Mughal Paintings. London: The British Library.

-       (1981). Dragons in Persian, Mughal and Turkish Art. London: The British Library.

Verma, Som Prakash.,

-       (2012). Ordinary Life in Mughal India. New Delhi: Aryan Books.

-       (2016). The Illustrated Baburnama. London and New York: Routledge.

-       (2019). The Illustrated Akbarnama: A Historical Sourcebook. New Delhi: South Asia Press.

Welch, Stuart Cary and Masteller, Kimberly., (2004). From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Wilkinson, J.V.S., (Date unknown). The Lights of Canopus: Anvār i Suhailī. London: The Studio Limited and Herbert Reiach Ltd.

Wright, Elaine., (2012). The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz 1303-1452. Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Instituition and Seattle, University of Washington Press and Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.

Yang, Jianfeng 杨建峰., (2011). The Complete Works of Chinese Landscape Painting 中国山水画全集. Chinese edition. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.

Yang, Xin, Nie, Chongzheng, Lang, Shaojun, Barnhart, Richard M., Cahill, James and Wu, Hung. (1997). Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven & London: Yale University Press and Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.

Zhang, Hongxing, ed., (2013). Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900. London: V&A Publishing.

LITERATURE

Attar, Farid U-Din., (This edition 2011). The Conference of the Birds. Translated by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. London: Penguin.

Ferdowsi, Abolqasem., (This edition 2016). Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Translated by Dick Davis. London: Penguin.

Khayyam, Omar., Rubaiyat. (This edition 1992). Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Boston: International Pocket Library.

Munshi, Nasrullah., (2019). Kalila and Dimna. Translated from the Persian by Wheeler Thackston. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Nizami Ganjavi.,

-       (This edition 1966). The Story of Layla and Majnun. Translated and edited by Dr. Rudolph Gelpke. New Lebanon: Omega Publications.

-       (This edition 2015). Haft Paykar. Translated by Julie Scott Meisami. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Somadeva., (1994). Tales from the Kathasaritsagara. Translated by Arshia Sattar. India: Penguin Books.

Chakraborty, S.A., The Daevabad Trilogy (The City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copper, The Empire of Gold). (2020). London: HarperCollins.

Chelkowski, Peter J., (1975). Mirror of the Invisible World: Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.