Sheila R. Canby
Shah Abbas, the remaking of Iran
The British museum press
The British museum press This book is published 10 accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 19 February 10 14 June 2009
© 2009 The Trustees of the British Museum Text pp. 88-97 © 2009 Robert Gleave Text pp. 98-1 15 © 2009 Kishwar Rizvi
Sheila Canby has asserted the right to be identified as the as the author of this work
First published in 2009 by the British Museum Press A division of The British Museum Company ltd 38 Russell Square. London WCIB 3QQ www.britishmuseum.org
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ISBN (cased) 978•0-7141-2456-8 ISBN (paperback) 978•0•7141-2452-0
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Half Title: cat. no. 115 (pp. 236-7) Frontis piece: cal. no. 110 detail (pp. 230-31) Left and opposite: cat. no. 84 detail (pp. 174-5) Opposite p. 1: cat. no. 13 (pp. 52-3) p. 4: cat. no. 123 (pp. 250-51) pp. 10-11: fig. 56 (pp.128-9)
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Contributors
Major contributions by;
Robert Gleave Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
Kishwar Rizvi Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University. USA
Additional contributions by:
Robert Elgood Research Fellow. Eastern European, Islamic and Asian Arms and Armour, The Wallace Collection, UK
E. K. Faridany Independent Scholar. London, UK
Jessica Harrison-Hall Curator, Department of Asia, British Museum, UK
Martin Royalton-Kisch Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. UK
Mahnaz Rahimifar Head of the Islamic Art Department, National Museum of Iran, Iran
Fahmida Suleman Research Assistant, Department of the Middle East, British Museum, UK
Jon Thompson Former May Hamilton Beattie Fellow in Carpet Studies, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK
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