Amir Maziar holds a PhD in Philosophy of Art and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Art, Tehran. He is the author of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy (2017) and Dream, Metaphor and the Religious Language: Sacred Text as Artistic Text (2021). He published several articles on the history of Islamic art, such as: “New Safavid City, Historical Ideas and Trends in the Construction of Abbasi Isfahan” (2019) and “The Place of Leisure and Recreation in the Urban Structure of Safavid Isfahan” (2022).