The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin, a tomb-shrine located south of Tehran, is well known for supplying global museums with iconic examples of Ilkhanid-period luster tilework. After providing a historiography of the site, including its plunder in the late nineteenth century, we explore its current (2018–20) “life” in order to illuminate the many ways…[Read more]

This article explores Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah II (r. 1580-1627) and his Bijapur court in light of Indo-Persian processes of taste, intellectualism, and migration. Bijapur is first positioned as a critical stop in cultural peregrinations between Safavid Iran and Mughal India, and Ibrahim is explored as a collector of coveted books, a hitherto u…[Read more]