As a historian of technologies living and working in Paris, Parviz Mohebbi works as an associate researcher with the CNRS (Iranian and Indian world) as well as with the Encyclopædia Iranica, New York, Columbia University. He has in particular published Techniques et ressources en Iran du VIIe au XIXe siècle (Tehran, Institut français de recherche en Iran, 1996).He is the author of the chapter ‘Technology’ in the book by Ziva Vesel et al., Images of Islamic Science, vol. 1, Illustrated Manuscript from the Iranian World (UNESCO / CNRS / Institut français de recherche en Iran, 2009, p. 263-282).