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The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana
Biographical note
Sheila S. Blair is Area Editor for the Islamic articles in The Dictionary of Art, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. Publications: The Ilkhanid Shrine Complex at Natanz, Iran; co-author with Oleg Grabar, Epic Images and Contemporary History; and many articles.
Readership
students and specialists of the political, religious, social, and artistic history of Iran and the Muslim world.
Reviews
'...collects together secondary material which is scattered and difficult to locate.'
J.M. Rogers, BSOAS, 1992.
'...cette somme de travail patient et érudit qui apporte une contribution notable à l'épigraphie arabe.'
Solange Ory, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques, 1993.
'...this is a very important work of scholarship which will be of great benefit to a wide range of scholars in different fields of Islamic studies.'
Carole Hillenbrand, Journal of Semitic Studies, 1996.
J.M. Rogers, BSOAS, 1992.
'...cette somme de travail patient et érudit qui apporte une contribution notable à l'épigraphie arabe.'
Solange Ory, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques, 1993.
'...this is a very important work of scholarship which will be of great benefit to a wide range of scholars in different fields of Islamic studies.'
Carole Hillenbrand, Journal of Semitic Studies, 1996.
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