Notes on Leonard M. Helfgott


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Leonard M. Helfgott Helfgott, L.M. Ties That Bind. A Social History of the Iranian Carpet. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.

Helfgott, L.M. Ties That Bind. A Social History of the Iranian Carpet. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
Helfgott, Leonard M., Ph.D., University of Maryland -- modern Middle East and modern Europe.
Graduate Faculty Western Washington University.
Helfgott, Leonard M. "Structural Foundations of the National Minority Problem in Revolutionary Iran" Moddle East Studies, XIII (1-4), pp. 195-213
Leonard, Helfgott. 1990. Carpet Collecting in Iran, 1873-1883: Robert Murdoch Smith and the Formation of the Modern Persian Carpet Industry. In Muqarnas VII: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Oleg Grabar (ed.). Leiden: E.J. Brill. Muqarnas Volume VII: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture

Helfgott, Leonard M. Ties That Bind. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

A very good book to help you understand the rug business in history as opposed to the rugs. Helfgott did a good bit of research that helps us to sort fact from rug myth. Lib.

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