Pedro Moura Carvalho

Pedro Moura Carvalho, Ph.D. (2003) in Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is chief curator of the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. He has published extensively on the European contribution to the arts of India, Iran, and China. Among his works are "Luxury for Export, Artistic Exchange between India and Portugal" (2008), and "Gems and Jewels of Mughal India" in the Khalili Collection (2010). Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, retired, at Harvard University. Among his publications for the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture are "A Century of Princes: Sources on Timurid History and Art" (1989), and "Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters" (2001). He has also translated the memoirs of Mughal emperors, such as the "Baburnama" (1996) and the "Jahangirnama" (1999).