This is an ambitious, complex, and erudite book based on the author's 1998 dissertation at the University of Lausanne and following some of the same lines of inquiry as Johann Christoph Bürgel's provocative essays in The Feather of Simurgh (1988). La poétique de la peinture en Iran combines literary and pictorial analysis, takes on the important and little studied issue of the conceptual links between Persian literature and Persian painting, and aims at nothing less than an interpretation of the philosophical and theoretical underpinings of both verbal and visual production in Iran during the medieval through early modern periods.