This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.

About the Author
Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Ph.D. (2012, Delhi University), is a calligrapher and an independent scholar. He has published several books including Zar-Afshan: A Dictionary of Terms Relating to Calligraphy, Ornamentation, and the Making of Manuscripts as Found in Classical Persian Poetry (Tehran, 2013). Shervin Farridnejad, Ph.D. (2014, Georg-August University of Goettingen), is a calligrapher, illuminator and professor of ancient and classical Iranian Studies at the University of Hamburg. He has published monographs, and articles most notably on the Judeo-Persian and Zoroastrian iconography, literature and manuscript cultures, among others Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Goetterbilder im Zoroastrismus (Harrassowitz, 2018).


Book Information
ISBN 9789004729537
Author Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani
Format Paperback
Page Count 396
Imprint Brill
Publisher Brill
Weight(grams) 1g