Sheila R. Canby Books
The Golden Age of Persian Art 1501 1722
By Sheila Canby
"The era of Safavid rule (1501-1722) saw the finest flowering of the arts in Iran. In a time of dynamic religious and political developments, painting and textiles attained new heights of brillianc...
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The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
By Sheila R. Canby, Ferdowsi, Phil Mariani
"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the po...
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The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
By Sheila R. Canby, Ferdowsi, Phil Mariani
"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the po...
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Court and cosmos
By Deniz Beyazit, Sheila R. Canby, A. C. S. Peacock, Martina Rugiadi
"The powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs--an empire whose reach extended from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean--dominated the Islamic world from the eleventh to the fourteenth century...
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