«Tabrīz school.» Encyclopædia Britannica. 1995<https://web.archive.org/web/20120208042758/http://www.uv.es/EBRIT/micro/micro_578_26.html>. «Tabrīz school, in painting, school of miniaturists founded by the Mongol Il-Khans early in the 14th century and active through the first half of the 16th century. The style represented the first full penetration of East Asian traditions into Islāmic painting, an influence that was extreme at first but then blended with the native idiom.»