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

AvChad Kia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-14
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:628 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474450386

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

While grounded in the field of art history, Kia employs a cross-disciplinary perspective in Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shiism in Iran, showing how religion, culture, politics, and society overlap, intertwine, complement, and contradict one another. Consequently, this original and thought-provoking book will be indispensable for scholars of early modern cultural studies and—equally significantly—to those studying the long duree trajectory of Iranian history.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations 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 OrderChapter 5: The Culmination of a Trend: "Depraved Man Commits Bestiality"Conclusion: The Sufi SynthesisNotesIllustrationsBibliography