Book of Mukaddima Mukhtarovna Ashrafi – eminent scholar in field of eastern miniature studies – is a scientific-popular publication complemented with colored illustrations that represents the evolution of the miniature art on the territory of the Middle East and Central Asia during XVI-XVII centuries as part of the creative work of the great painters of the Late Middle Ages – from Behzad to Rizayi Abbasi – key figures for the formation and development of Tabriz, Qazvin and Mashad styles of miniature.