A wide-ranging examination of the longstanding links between Iran and India in Islamic times, from the well-known arts of building, landscape architecture and painting to many other aspects of daily life including dress, food, music and verse, this book is bound to appeal to a broad audience interested in intercultural exchange.
Sheila Blair, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art (Emerita), Boston College, MA, USA
This timely and richly varied collection of essays delves into the long and entangled history of connections between India and Iran. Viewed through the historical lens of cultural landscapes, rather than the dividing boundaries of the nation-state structures we are accustomed to, these essays focus on different aspects of the staggeringly diverse ways the peoples from West Asia, through Central and South Asia of today lived in cultural worlds that did not label things Indian, Afghan, Iranian, or Hindu and Muslim, but remained open to transregional and transcultural flow of ideas, tastes, and technologies.
Sussan Babaie, Professor, Islamic and Iranian Arts, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
