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…
On November 14–15, 2023, the 1st All-Russia conference of young orientalists “Army and military traditions of the Near East” will be held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS. The program of the conference is now available.
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