Books by Barbara Brend

Barbara Brend is a specialist in the field of Islamic manuscript painting, Persian, Ottoman, Sultanate and Mughal. She is the author of Islamic Art, The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami, Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah and Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi. Charles Melville is Professor of Persian History and Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. Among his numerous publications he is the editor of Safavid Persia, A History of Persian Literature, Vol X and joint editor of the Cambridge History of Iran, Vol VII. He is also Director of the AHRC Cambridge Shahnameh Project.