Lamia Balafrej is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"This stimulating and original study draws on both the antecedents
and the legacies of Behzad's art from the 14th to the 16th century
in Iran and Transoxiana and will prompt a fresh look at our
appreciation of Persian miniature painting. The study places the
Bustan manuscript in a sort of shifting continuum of tradition,
response and innovation that both exalted and obscured the
individuality of the artist". -- Charles Melville, Pembroke
College, Cambridge
"An impressive and compelling work of scholarship that promotes a
radical reorientation for the study of illustrated Persian
manuscripts. At the same time it offers a detailed investigation,
through original perspectives, of the paintings in a celebrated,
and hitherto inadequately studied volume produced at the court of
the last Timurid ruler Sultan Husayn Bayqara in Herat... This book
will be of enormous interest to art historians and Islamic studies
scholars in general and specialists in Persian painting in
particular, who will appreciate the author's sophisticated approach
and multi-faceted readings of the Bustan paintings - so
long-admired and yet so cursorily-studied". -- Marianna Shreve
Simpson, Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
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