Metalwork Seminar no. 1 'Interaction between Iran and India ...

Metalwork Seminar no. 1 ‘Interaction between Iran and India’.
Reading list
Items marked with an asterisk* are those considered most immediately useful for the seminar.
al-Biruni 1989
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, Kitab fi tahqiq-i-ma li’l-Hind, Hyderabad
1958, translated Edward C. Sachau, Al-Beruni’s India, 2 vols, Delhi 1989 (reprint).
*Bosworth 1968
C.E. Bosworth, ‘The eastern fringes of the Iranian world: the end of the Ghaznavids and the
upsurge of the Ghurids’, in Boyle 1968, pp.157-66.
*Bosworth 1976
C.E. Bosworth, ‘The Early Ghaznavids’, in Frye 1975, pp.162-197.
Boyle 1968
J.A. Boyle (editor), The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.5,
Cambridge 1968.
Digby 1973
S. Digby, ‘The Bhugola of Ksema Karna: a Dated Sixteenth Century Piece of Indian
Metalware’, Art and Archaeology Research Papers (AARP), no.4, London December 1973,
pp.10-31.
Fehérvári 2005
G. Fehérvári, ‘Islamic Incense-burners and the Influence of Buddhist Art’, in O’Kane 2005,
pp.127-141.
*Flood 2009
F.B. Flood, Objects of Translation, Princeton 2009.
*Frye 1975
R.N. Frye (editor), The Period from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuks, The Cambridge History
of Iran, vol.4, Cambridge 1975.
Hartner 1973
W. Hartner, ‘The Vaso Vescovali in the British Museum’, Kunst des Orients, vol. 9, 1973-74,
pp.99-130.
Khan 1990
A.N. Khan, al-Mansurah: A Forgotten Arab Metropolis in Pakistan, Karachi 1990.
Mason 1993
D. Mason, Gods, Guardians and Lovers, New York 1993.

Melikian-Chirvani 1972
A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, ‘The Buddhist Heritage in the Art of Iran’, Mahayanist Art after
AD900, Percival David Foundation Colloquies, edited by William Watson, no 2, 1972, pp.
52-65.
Melikian-Chirvani 1975
A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, ‘Les Bronzes du Khorassan ii’, Studia Iranica, 4, 1975, fasc. 1,
pp.51-71 (especially pp.55-8).
Minorsky 1937
Hudud al-‘alam, The Regions of the World: A Persian Geography 372 A.H – 982A.D.,
translated and commentary V. Minorsky, London 1937.
*Nazim 1931
Muhammad Nazim, The Life and Times of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, Cambridge 1931,
(republished New Delhi 1971).
O’Kane 2005
Bernard O’Kane (ed), The Iconography of Islamic Art. Studies in Honour of Robert
Hillenbrand, Edinburgh 2005.
Reedy 1989
Chandra Reedy, ‘Copper Alloy Casting and Decorating Technology’, Art and Architecture of
Ancient Kashmir, ed. P. Pal, Marg Publications, 1989, pp.95-104.
Schroeder 1981
Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981.
Wink 1990-2004
André Wink, Al-Hind. The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, 3 vols, Leiden 1990, 1997, 2004.