Images of Islamic Science: Illustrated Manuscripts from the Iranian World, Volume I
his is the first volume of a UNESCO project published under the auspices of Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Fondation Max van Berchem and the Islamic
Images of Islamic Science: Illustrated Manuscripts from the Iranian World, Volume I
his is the first volume of a UNESCO project published under the auspices of Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Fondation Max van Berchem and the Islamic Azad University, this volume has a dual purpose: to assemble reference materials on the illustration of scientific literature from the Iranian world in the Islamic period, and to do so mainly on the basis of scientific texts written in the Persian language. Both topics, which remain little studied to this day are of great importance in the Iranian context, because the Iranian world favoured, principally through court patronage, the development of illustration, as well as the use of its own literary language, Persian, alongside Arabic in the field of science.
The scientific achievements of pre-Islamic Iran, which were written in Middle Persian and are no long extant, w