Acknowledgments
Prologue
Oleg Grabar
Seeing Things: Why Pictures in Texts?
I. Imagining Space and the Spaces of Imagination
Michael Cooperson
Images Without Illustrations: The Visual Imagination in Classical Arabic Biography
Julie S. Meisami
Palaces and Paradises: Palace Description in Medieval Persian Poetry
II. Narrating Illustrations: Two Case Studies in Text-Image Relationships
Jerome W. Clinton
Ferdowsi and the Illustration of the Shahnameh
Cynthia Robinson
The Lover, His Lady, Her Lady, and a Thirteenth-Century Celestina: A Recipe for Love Sickness from al-Andalus
III. Beyond the Frame: Considering the Object
David J. Roxburgh
The Aesthetics of Aggregation: Persian Anthologies of the Fifteenth Century
Sussan Babaie
The Sound of the Image/The Image of the Sound: Narrativity in Persian Art of the Seventeenth Century