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 Sixth International Academic Conference "The Turko-Mongol World: Past and Present" in memory of Sergei G. Klyashtorny (1928–2014) will be held on March 16, 2026.