Books :

Art of the Persian Courts

with a contribution by Milo C. Beach

Rizzoli, New York, 1992. 424 pages.

Note:       The texts are mostly in the non-edited version presented to the editor. For the final version, please refer to the actual publication.

"The Saga of Abu-Sa`id Bahâdor Khân, The Abu-sa’idnâmé", in At the Court of the Il-Khan’s, 1290-1340, ed. J. Raby and T. Fitzherbert, Oxford University Press, UK, 1996, pp. 95-218

                                 IMAGES of the Abusa`idnameh (12 Mb)

"A Chinese Dish from the Lost Endowment of the Princess Soltânum," in Papers in Honor of Iraj Afshar, ed. K. Eslami, Darwin Press, Princeton (NJ) 1998, pp. 125-147.

 Figure 1,    Figure 2,    Figure 3

"Between the Safavids and the Mughals; Art and Artists in Transition" in IRAN  XXXVII, 1999, pp.49-66. Plates 1-17

"Forgeries; Introduction" in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, fasc.1, pp. 90-93.

The Aura of Kings: Legitimacy and Divine Sanction in Iranian Kingship  Bibliotheca Iranica, Intellectual Traditions Series, #10, xiv +178 pages, 126 illustr., Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa 2003.

Articles :

"The concepts of al-aqdamo asahh and yaqin-e sâbeq and  the problem of semi-fakes" in Studia Iranica, Paris 1999,

vol. 28/ 2, pp.255-69.

"The Age of Muhammadi" in Muqarnas XVII (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp.17-68 .                     PLATES 1-9, figs. 1-30

“The Early Safavids and their Cultural Interactions with Surrounding States” in Iran and the Surrounding World, Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, ed. N. Keddie and R. Matthee, Univ. of Washington Press, 2002, pp. 89-120.  Figs 1-8

In Defense of Rashid-od-din and his Letters in Studia Iranica vol. 32 (2003), pp. 77-122.                                 Appendix

The significance of Av. čithra, OPers. čiça, MPers čihr, and NPers. čehr, for the Iranian Cosmogony of Light. In Iranica Antiqua  2006, pp. 151-85

The Mongol Legacy of Persian Farmāns, in Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan , Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp.407-21.         Plates

The Han-Lin Academy and the Persian Royal Library, in History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East; Studies in Honor of John E. Woods, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 467-84, Figures 1-3,   Figures 4-7

Decoding Old Masters: Patrons, Painters, and Enigmatic Paintings of the 15th Century.

IB Tauris, London, 2008. xxii+154 pages,

226 illustrations in color.

Reviews:

Review of The Rebellious Reformer, The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi `Abbasi of Isfahan, Sheila R. Canby, London, 1996 in Iranian Studies 33 (2000): 413.

Review of The Persian album, 1400-1600; From Dispersal to Collection, by Roxburgh, D., New Heaven: 2005, in Iranian Studies .

Achaemenid Bureaucratic Practices and Safavid Falsification of History. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europea, Vol. II 2008