A version of this article is available in print Volume XIV, Fascicle 5, pp. 462-468 JĀMEʿ AL-TAWĀRIḴ i. The work…

RABʿ-E RAŠIDI (ربع رشیدی), the charitable foundation (abwāb al-berr) established by the physician, vizier, and historian Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh (ca. 1247-1318)…

EPIGRAPHY iii. Arabic inscriptions in Persia In Persia, as in the rest of the Islamic lands, Arabic was the basic…

FARĪD KĀTEB, scribe active in Shiraz in the 10th/16th century. He is known exclusively through signed works. The most famous…

EZĪRĀN, a village 32 km. southeast of Isfahan on the south bank of the river Zāyandarūd. The major surviving monument…

ʿENĀYAT-ALLĀH, Timurid builder or tile maker of the 15th century. He reportedly built or decorated the dome of the Qobba-ye…

EBRĀHĪM B. ʿOṮMĀN B. ʿANKAWAYH ḤADDĀD, Persian metalworker named in the inscription in Kufic script on the copper door knockers…

EBRĀHĪM B. ESMĀʿĪL, Safavid architect mentioned on two tiles: one in the dome of the tomb of Shaikh ʿAbd-al-Ṣamad at…

EBN BĀBAWAYH (Bābūya), family of Persian builders, luster potters, and tile makers, descended from the Shiʿite scholar Ebn Bābūya al-Ṣadūq…

DĀMḠĀNĪ, nesba of a father and two sons from Dāmḡān who worked as engineers, builders, and stucco carvers in the…

IL-KHANIDS ii. ARCHITECTURE The architecture produced during the period of Il-khanid rule in Persia and Iraq is notable for its…

GONBAD-E QĀBUS (KĀVUS), city and sub-province in the Golestān Province. i. Geography. ii. Population. iii. Monument.   i. GEOGRAPHY The…

GAČ-BORĪ, plasterwork or stucco. Gypsum plaster has been used as a building material in Persia for more than 2,500 years….

FORGERIES iii. OF ISLAMIC ART Medieval Arabic and Persian literature contain numerous anecdotes about the forging of manuscripts, but it…

JĀMEʿ al-TAWĀRIḴ ii. ILLUSTRATIONS Just as the text of Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh’s Jāmeʿ al-tawāriḵ can be regarded as groundbreaking historically, so…