Preface and acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note to the Reader 1. The Visual Culture of Greater Iran: Some Examples of Kushano-Sasanian Art, Judith A. Lerner 2. The Late Sasanian Figurative Capitals at Taq-i Bustan: Proposals Regarding Identification and Origins, Matteo Compareti 3. Architecture of the Wider Persian World: From Central Asia to Western Anatolia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Richard Piran McClary 4. From Acquisition to Display: The Reception of Chinese Ceramics in the Pre-modern Persian World, Yuka Kadoi 5. Devotion and Protection: Four Amuletic Scrolls from Safavid Persia, Tobias Nünlist 6. The Minarets of Hurmuzgan, Iván Szántó 7. Persia, India or Indo-Persian? The Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Knotted Pile Carpets, Raquel Santos 8. The Calligraphic Art of Mishkin Qalam, Francesco Stermotich-Cappellari 9. The Kashan Mihrab in Berlin: A Historiography of Persian Lustreware, Markus Ritter Contributors Index