Books


2022

Marzolph, Ulrich; Zenhari, Roxana. Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi The Master Illustrator of Persian Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period. Two volumes. Brill, 2022. (239+487 pages, 2000 illustrations)

2014

Zenhari, Roxana. The Persian Romance Samak-e ʿayyār, Analysis of an illustrated Inju Manuscript. Dortmund, Germany: Verlag für Orientkunde 42, 2014. (380 pages, 129 illustrations, ISBN 978-3-936687-42-0)


Articles


2021

Zenhari, Roxana. “Picture Narration and Oral Performance: Representing the Chain of Events in the Illustrated Medieval Persian Romance Samak-e ʿayyār.” In Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie. Vol. 7, pp. 241–254, Wiesbaden, Germany: Reichert Verlag, 2021. (ISBN 978-3-95490-504-1)

2018

Zenhari, Roxana. “Visual and Textual Medieval Humor in Honor of Femininity: Inju cases.” In Terra Ridens: A Festschrift in Honor of Ulrich Marzolph. Vol. 1, pp. 67–88, Dortmund, Germany: Verlag für Orientkunde, 2018. (ISBN 3-936687-45-5)

2014

Marzolph, Ulrich and Roxana Zenhari. “As Makke tā Mashhad: ṭumār-e taṣviri az safar-e ziyārati-ye shiʿi dar dourān-e qājār.” Translated by Roxana Zenhari. Nāme-ye Bahārestān 2, pp. 22–55, 2014. [In English.] “From Mecca to Mashhad: The Narrative of an Illustrated Shiʿi Pilgrimage Scroll from the Qajar Period.” Muqarnas 31, pp. 207–242, 2014.

2007

Zenhari, Roxana. “An Analysis of St. Petersburg Illustrated Manuscript of Shāhnāme 733/1333.” Peer reviewed journal, Quarterly Book of Art. [In Farsi.] “Naqde majālesi az Shāhnāme-ye St. Petersburg 733/1333.” Fasl-nāme-ye Honar 72, pp. 127–153, 1386/2007. (ISSN: 1726-3794)

2005

Zenhari, Roxana. “The Demons Dancing: An Interpretation of a Work of the Timurid Artist Moḥammad Siyāhqalam.” Peer reviewed journal, Book of Culture 17, pp. 86–100, 1384/2005. [In Farsi.] “Naqd va taḥlil-e divān-e raqsande asar-e Moḥammad Siyāhqalam.” Barg-e Farhang 17, pp. 86–100, 1384/2005.

2004

Zenhari, Roxana. “A Methodology to Analyze Images: Michel Foucault Epistemology and the Images of Madness.” Peer reviewed journal, Book of Art 24, pp. 28–51. [In Farsi.] “Shenākhtshenāsi-ye Michel Foucault dar taḥlil-e taṣāvir-e jonun.” Honar-nāme 24, pp. 28–51, 1383/2004.

Review


2020

Zenhari, Roxana. Review of Barry Wood’s “The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil, a Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance.” In SOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Vol. 83, issue 3, pp. 529–530, 2020.