Milesent's Persian Resarch Page

Museums and Libraries

The Freer Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian - Sadly few works on display when I visited, but they have a large selection veiwable on thier website. http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Islamic

The Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.clevelandart.org/- in particular works on display:

Sadiqi Bek "Aulad Tied to a Tree" Iranian, Safavid period 1575-1600 CMA 1988.101
Attributed to Musavvir, Mir "Rustam Slays the White Div" Iranian, Safavid period 1520s-1540s CMA 1988.96
Unknown "Opening Pages from a Manuscript of the Koran" Iranian 1500s CMA 1924.746a

The Louvre - Mostly viewed on line, though I did see a few works in person on one glorious trip to Paris two years ago. http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en

The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia - Someday I will go to this museum, alas, all works cited on this site were viewed on line.http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

University of Manchester Rylands Library - http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/insight/rylands_coll.htm

Books and Articles

Atil, Esin The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1987

Barks, Coleman, John Moyne, A.J.Arberry and Reynold Nicholson (Trans) The Essential Rumi HarperCollins, San Franscisco, 1996

Batmanglij, Najmieh A Taste of Persia: An Introduction to Persian Cooking Mage Publishers, Washington DC 2000

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

Canby, Sheila R. The Golden Age of Persian Art 1501-1722 Harry N. Abrams, Inc., London 1999

Davis, Dick Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams Mage Publishers, Washington DC. 1997

Hekmat, Forough-es-Saltaneh The Art of Persian Cooking Doubleday, New York 1961

Hayez, V., S. Denoël, Z. Genadry and B. Gilbert “Identification of pigments on a 16th century Persian manuscript by micro-Raman spectroscopy” Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, J. Ramen Spectrosc. 2004. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).

Los Angeles County Museum; Woven Treasures of Persian Art exhibition catalogue; April-May 1959: "Persian Textiles from the 6th to 19th Century". Forward by Upham Pope.

Lentz, Thomas W and Glenn D. Lowry. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC 1989

Mandel Khan, Gabriel Arabic Script Abbeville Press Publishers, NY 2001

Mazda, Maideh In a Persian Kitchen: Favorite Recipes from the Near East Charles E. Tuttle, Co. Toykyo, 1993

Meisami, Julie Scott Structure and meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Poetry: Orient Pearls Routledge Curzon, London, 2003

Miller, Lloyd Music and Song in Persia: The Art of Avaz. Curzon Press, Great Britain, 1999

Minorsky, V (trans), B.N. Zakhoder, T. Minorsky (trans) "Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by Qadi Ahmad, son of Mir-Munshi (circa AD 1606)” Freer Gallery of Art Occsional Papers, Vol.3, Number 2, Smithsonian Institution Publication, Washington DC 1959

Petrosyan,Yuri, Oleg F. Akimushkine, Anas B. Khalidov, Efim A Rezvan Pages of Perfection: Islamic Calligraphy and Miniatures from the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Abbeville Press, Inc.; 1996

Pope, Arthur Upham Masterpieces of Persian Art Dryden Press, NY 1945

Porter, Yves (S. Butani Trans.) Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries Manohar Centre for Human Sciences, New Delhi 1994

Purinton, Nancy and Mark Watters “A Study of the Materials Used by Medieval Persian Painters”Journal of the American Institute for Conservation © 1991 The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works

Qureshi, Jafar H. Arabic Writing for Beginners Kazi Publications Inc, Chicago

Rodinson, Maxime, A. J. Arberry and Charels Perry Medieval Arab Cookery: Essays and Translations Cromwell Press, Wiltshire UK, 2001

Simpson, Marianna Shreve Persian Poetry, Painting and Patronage: Illustrations in a Sixteenth-Century Masterpiece Yale University Press, New Haven 1998

Williams, Hollie “Persian Court Costume and Dance in the 16th Century” The Compleat Anachronist #119, Spring 2003

Walker, Daniel and Marie Lukens Swietochowski “Islamic Art” The Metropolitan Musem of Art Bulletin, 1990.

Waines, David “’Luxury foods’ in medieval Islamic societies” in World Archaeology Vol 34, pages 571-580. Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2003

Welch, Stuart Cary Persian Painting: Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century George Braziller, Inc. New York, 1976

Whitfield, Roderick “Chinese Painting Colors: Studies of their Preparation and Application in Traditional and Modern Times” The China Quarterly, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1992

Websites

Website: http://expositions.bnf.fr/splendeurs/index.htm
On-line Exposition of Persian manuscripts from the Bibliotheque Nationale, France

Website: http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/loveyearning/ -- This URL has moved.
On-line exhibition of Persian Art (excellent site, allows zooming for detail) part of the Freer Sackler Gallery

Website: http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Islamic
On-line exhibition of Freer Sackler Gallery

Website: http://www.roxanefarabi.com/ClothingPgs/Clothingarticle.htm
Duchess Roxanne Farabi’s well-researched article about Persian Costume

Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/Rashid/Rashid0.html
Rashid’s Persian Patterns – patterns extrapolated from extant sources

Website: http://medieval.webcon.net.au/loc_middle_east_persian.html
Embroidery history site with images of extant items including cloud collar and chemise

Website: http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/insight/rylands_coll.htm
University of Manchester, UK Rylands Library on-line collection (allows zooming)

Website: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/turkey/konya/mevlana_tekke/museum/textiles/clothing/
13th century extant Seljuk garments, very little information other than the photos.

Website: www.islamicart.com
Includes an interactive animated calligraphy page at /main/calligraphy/catalog/alphabet.html

Website: http://webexhibits.org/pigments/
Webexhibit's Pigments through the Ages website, a great quick-reference for pigments

Website: http://www.foodtimeline.org
The Food Timeline

Website: http://www.professionalpasta.it/dir_9/cron_somm.htm
Pasta Professionals

Website: http://iranica.com/index.html
Encylopedia Iranica

Website: http://www.persianmirror.com/cuisine/soups/soups.cfm#reshte
The Persian Mirror's page for noodle soup

Website: http://www.cliffordawright.com/history/macaroni.html
"The History of Macaroni" by Clifford A. Wright (Note: All page numbers used in citations come from the printable version of the article at the above URL.)

Website: http://www.wikipedia.com
Wikipedia