A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts

Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Ph.D. (2012, Delhi University), is a calligrapher and an independent scholar. He has published several books including Zar-Afshan: A Dictionary of Terms Relating to Calligraphy, Ornamentation, and the Making of Manuscripts as Found in Classical Persian Poetry (Tehran, 2013). Shervin Farridnejad, Ph.D. (2014, Georg-August University of Göttingen), is a calligrapher, illuminator and scholar of ancient and classical Iranian Studies at the Austran Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He has published monographs, and articles most notably on the Judeo-Persian and Zoroastrian iconography, literature and manuscript cultures, among others Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus (Harrassowitz 2018).

Editor’s Preface

Author’s Note

Translator’s Note

List of Illustrations

Notes on Alphabetical Order, Pronunciation, Transcription and Dates

Transcription Tables

Abbreviations



The Persian Treatises as Primary Sources on Iranian Calligraphy



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Appendix 1: Map of Greater Iran



Appendix 2: Map of the Persianate World



Appendix 3: Major Islamic Dynasties



Bibliography of Cited, Selected Related Works, and Abbreviations



Index of Personal and Historical Names



Index of Technical Notions, Materials and Terms



General Index