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The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending roughly from the Euphrates to the Hindu Kush and to the Altai.

Produktbeschreibung
The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending roughly from the Euphrates to the Hindu Kush and to the Altai.
Autorenporträt
Lisa Golombek, Ph.D. (1968) University of Michigan, is Curator Emeritus ( Royal Ontario Museum) and Professor Emeritus (University of Toronto). Her publications on Islamic art range from architecture to portable objects and include The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan (Princeton University Press 1988), Tamerlane's Tableware (ROM press 1996) and Persian Pottery in the First Global Age (BRILL 2014) Maria E. Subtelny, PhD (1979) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. She has published extensively on the Timurids and on medieval Iranian and Central Asian cultural history. Her book Le monde est un jardin: Aspects de l'histoire culturelle de l'Iran médiéval (Paris, 2002) received the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award. Recent publications are Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran (BRILL, 2007); "Visionary Rose: Metaphorical Interpretation of Horticultural Practice in Medieval Persian Mysticism" (2007) and "The Traces of the Traces: Reflections of the Garden in the Persian Mystical Imagination" (2008)