Viola Allegranzi. Aux sources de la poésie ghaznavide. Les inscriptions persanes de Ghazni (Afghanistan, XIe - XIIe siècles)

This comprehensive survey is published more than half a century after the last – and first – monograph about the subject, The Kūfic Inscription in Verses in the Court of the Royal Palace of Masʻūd III at Ghazni (Rome, 1966), written by Alessio Bombaci. When Bombaci found out that most of the epigraphy from the palace were to be read in Persian, the discovery was justly hailed as a major scientific breakthrough, given that earlier attempts at deciphery (including Bombaci’s own initial efforts)..