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The present publication, by Ulrich Marzolph and Roxana Zenhari, is a comprehensive assessment of the art of Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi, the unsurpassed master of the art of illustration in Persian lithographed books of the Qajar period.
Ulrich Marzolph, Ph.D. (Cologne 1981), is a retired professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Studying the Narrative Culture of the Muslim Middle East, he has published widely, including Narrative Illustration in Persian Lithographed Books (Brill, 2001). Roxana Zenhari, Ph.D. (Göttingen 2012), is an artist and an Islamic art historian specializing in Persian art. Her book The Persian Romance of Samak-e ʿayyār: Analysis of an Illustrated Inju Manuscript was published in 2014.