Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi’ism in Iran, 1487-1565

Chad Kia (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474450393 (ISBN)

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Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world’s most exquisite medieval paintings. It reveals the hidden meaning behind enigmatic figures and scenes that have puzzled modern scholars, focusing on five ‘miniature’ paintings. Chad Kia shows how the cryptic elements in these works of art from Timurid Persia conveyed the mystical teachings of Sufi poets like Rumi, Attar and Jami, and heralded one of the most significant events in the history of Islam: the takeover by the Safavids in 1501 and the conversion of Iran to Shiism.

Chad Kia has been a Smithsonian Fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art in Washington DC, and has taught Persian and Arabic literatures and Islamic art and intellectual history at Harvard University and Brown University.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting

Chapter 1: Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language

Chapter 2: Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript

Chapter 3: The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: The Bearded Man Drowning

Chapter 4: Fixed-Figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order

Chapter 5: The Culmination of a Trend: "Depraved Man Commits Bestiality"

Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis

Notes

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Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	12 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	474 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781474450393 / 9781474450393
Zustand	Neuware