Image and text acknowledgements

Figures I.1, 6.1, 19.1 Courtesy of Seyedhamed Yeganehfarzand. Figure 2.1 From Guy LeStrange, Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900). Source: Wikimedia. Figure 4.1 Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg: IR2268. Figures 8.1, 10.1, 26.1 Photographs and drawings: Marcus Milwright. Figure 11.1 Drawing: Atri Hatef Naiemi. After Topkapı Museum Library Ms. 3472, fols. 167r and v. Figure 12.1 Drawing: Naomi Shields. After Allan and Gilmour, Persian Steel, Figure 18. Figure 16.1 Shangri La, Honolulu, Hawai’i: 67.25. Courtesy of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Figure 24.1 Shangri La, Honolulu, Hawai’i. Courtesy of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Figure 25.1 Photograph: R. Digby Milwright. Figure 27.1 Drawing: Naomi Shields. After drawing by Donald Hill. Figure 29.1 Courtesy of Mohammed Khaleeq.