Islamic art 5 : studies on the art and culture of the Muslim world

Volume V of "Islamic Art" is mainly dedicated to painting.

Its substantial centre-piece is Adel Adamova's study of the Timurid Khamseh of Nizami of 1431 (VR-1000), in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Eleanor Sims returns to the work of Muhammad Zaman, primary among which are paintings in the great album kept in the Oriental Institute in the same city.

B.W. Robinson, contributes an article on a Turkman Shahnama dated 1486 (British Library, Add. 18188) that appears to have fascinated him over a period of five decades.

The dispersed 14th-century "Great Mongol Shahnama" is the focus of a short article by Sheila Blair, assisted by Jonathan Bloom.

Barbara Brend considers a set of early Ottoman paintings in another 14th-century Persian Nizami manuscript (Bibliotheque Nationale, Sup. pers. 580). This focus on the Eastern Islamic illustrative arts is counterbalanced by Marcus Milwright who offers a gazetteer, with an annotated bibliography, of Islamic archaeological sites in the Eastern Mediterranean.