At present, not one of the Arabic-script sources in Persian, Chaghatay, or Turkish provides more or less full or coherent biography of Kamāl al-Dīn Behzād. Still, some information, if scanty, about this great master of Persian miniatures has come down to us in fourteen works written in the above-noted languages between the late fifteenth and the first third of the seventeenth century. These works can be divided into three distinct groups…
The 47th Annual Session of Saint Petersburg Arabists will be held at the IOM RAS on April 7 and April 9, 2025. The conference program is now available.
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