Sources for Persian Garb, Middle Eastern Art, and Culture
Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran 1501-76, James Allen, Sheila Canby, Jon Thompson; editors. Skira Publishers, 2004.
Treasures of Islam, Philip Bamborough, Arco Publishing Company, 1977.
Islamic Arts, Jonathon Bloom and Sheila Blair, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1987.
Travels in Persia 1673-1677, Sir John Chardin, Dover Publications, 1988.
The Arts of Persia, R.W. Ferrier, Editor, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989.
The Art of Islam, Ernst Grube, New York, 1973.
Persian Poetry, Painting and Patronage: Illustrations in a Sixteenth Century Masterpiece. Marianna Shreve Simpson, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998.
Islamic Art and Architecture, Robert Hillenbrand, Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Persian Painting: From the Mongols to the Qajars, Robert Hillenbrand, I.B. Tauris, 2001.
Lost Treasures of Persia, Vladimir Loukonine & Anatoli Ivanov, Confidential Concepts, 1996.
L’Art De L’Orient Islamique (Oriental Islamic Art): Collection for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Museu Nacional de Art Antiga.
Women's Costume of the Near and Far East, Jennifer Scarce, 1987 Unwin Hyman Ltd., London,
North Sidney, and Wellington.
“On a Special Hat Introduced During the Reign of Shah Abbas the Great”, Barbara Schmitz, Journal of Persian Studies, Volume 22, Iran, 1984.
Persian Painting: Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century, Stuart Cary Welch, George Braziller, New York,1972.
Artists for the Shah: Late Sixteenth Century Painting at the Imperial Court of Iran, Anthony Welch, Yale University Press, 1976.
A Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book, Glenn Lowry and Susan Nemazee, University of Washington Press, 1988.
A King’s Book of Kings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stuart Cary Welch, Helvetica Press, 1972.
Sources for Middle Eastern Pottery
Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery, J.W. Allan, University of Oxford, 1971.
Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery, The Ashmolean Museum, 1998.
The Iznik Tile Kiln Excavations: the second round, 1981-1988, Okaty Aslanapa
Iznik:The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, Nurhan Atasoy, Julian Raby, Yanni Petsopoulos, Lawrence King Putblishers, 1999.
Treasury of Turkish Designs: 670 Motifs from Iznik Pottery, Azade Akar, Dover Publications, 1988
Iznik Pottery, John Carswell, British Museum Press, 1998
The Art of the Islamic Tile, Gerard Degeorge and Yves Porter, Flammarion, 2002
Pottery of the Islamic World; in the Tareq Rajab Museum, by Geza Fehervar, 1998.
Islamic Tiles, Venetia Porter, Interlink Publishing Group, 1995.
