A study of the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān (Book on the Characteristics of Animals), this book considers together text and image in this unique thirteenth-century manuscript, thereby contributing to the wider scholarship on Middle Eastern painting and art of the pre-modern period.
About the Author
Anna Contadini, PhD (1992) in Islamic Art, SOAS, London University, is currently Reader in Islamic Art at SOAS. She has worked as Curator at the V&A and the Chester Beatty Library, and as Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin. Her numerous publications include Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts, Brill 2007 and 2010, and Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A 1998.
