Sheila Canby spent 18 years as Curator of Islamic Art and Antiquities at the British Museum before being appointed Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009. She became Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2019.Her publications include Shah `Abbas: The Remaking of Iran (2009), Islamic Art in Detail (2005), Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-76, with Jon Thompson (2003), The Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501-1722 (1999), Persian Painting (1993), The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp(2011 and 2014), and with Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi, Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs (2016). She is now co-editing and co-authoring a book on the Farjam Collection