Table of Contents

Preface
Images of Authority on Kashan Lustreware
The sarcophagus of Shah Isma’il at Ardabil
Problems in Islamic Pottery
Review article. Persian Lustre Ware
Richard Ettinghausen and the iconography of Islamic art
Figural calligraphy in the Muslim world;
Introduction: The Orient of the Imagination
For God, Empire and Mammon: Some Art-Historical Aspects of the Reformed Dinars of ‘Abd al-Malik
The Soul of Islamic Art
The Syrian Connection: Archaic Elements in Spanish Umayyad Ivories;
Islamic Figural Sculpture
Islamic Art. Infinite Riches in a Little Room?
What Happened to the Sasanian Hunt in Islamic Art
The major minor arts of Islam
Recent Work on Islamic Iconography
The Islamic re-working of the Sasanian heritage: two case studies
A Leaf from My Rose Garden
Oleg Grabar, Distinguished Historian of Islamic Art
Oleg Grabar, the Scholarly Legacy
Wine in Islamic Art and Society
Index