Studies in Islamic Painting

A collection of studies, published over three decades, which deal with the materials, issues and problems of Islamic painting ranging from 10th-century Egypt, Ottoman Turkey to 19th-century Persia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Three Miniatures from Fustat in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Earliest Known Paintings from Islamic Cairo: Realism and Formalism
Notes on Some Fatimid Lustre Painted Ceramic Vessels
A Coloured Drawing of the Fatimid Period in the Keir Collection
A Drawing of Wrestlers in the Cairo Museum of Islamic Art
Materialen zum Dioskurides Arabicus
Persian Painting in the Fourteenth Century: A Progress Report
The Kalilah wa Dimnah of the Istanbul University Library and the Problem of Early Jalairid Painting
Miniatures in Istanbul Libraries
Herat, Tabriz, Istanbul. The Development of a Pictorial Style
Wall-Paintings in the Seventeenth-Century Monuments of Isfahan
A Lacquered Painting from the Collection of Lester Wolfe in the Museum of Notre Dame University
Traditionalism or Forgery: Lacquered Painting in 19th-century Iran
Notes on Ottoman Painting in the 15th Century
A Unique Turkish Painting of the 15th Century
The Siyar-i Nabi of the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library
Additional Notes
Index.