The Influence of Relations of Chinese Ming dynasty with Timurid Dynasty on Heart School of Persian Miniature

As understood from the title of this article, there has been a focus on the relations between Iran and China in the first half of A.H 9th/A.D 15th century and its influence on Iranian miniature. Being an historian, using a historical method and viewpoint, and invoking historical sources, the author has attempted to provide an answer for the following question: What were the conditions and historical trends involving the influence of Chinese painting on Iranian miniature in Timurid dynasty?Hypothesis indicates Iranian miniature and its connections with motifs and contents of Chinese painting. Since the early Timurid Sultans, the Persian miniature in its relation with the Chinese painting had a revolutionary trend from imitation, exercising, correction, and completion to the naturalization.