Author: Sirarpie Der NersessianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Chester Beatty Library
Author: Sirarpie Der NersessianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures [in] the Chester Beatty Library ; Minovi and E ; Blochet
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Author: The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures
Author: J. V. S. WilkinsonThe Library of A. Chester Beatty. (The Chester Beatty Library.) [With Plates.].
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Author: Chester Beatty LibraryThe Chester Beatty Library
Author: James V. S. WilkinsonMss. 101 - 150
Author: James V. S. WilkinsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The Persian Album, 1400-1600
Author: David J. RoxburghPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103250
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the practice of album making is to open a vista to a culture of thought about the Persian art tradition. The book considers the album’s formal and physical properties, assembly, and content, as well as the viewer’s experience. Focusing on seven albums created during the Timurid and Safavid dynasties, Roxburgh reconstructs the history and development of this codex form and uses the works of art to explore notions of how art and aesthetics were conceived in Persian court culture. Generously illustrated with over 175 images, many rare and previously unpublished, the book offers a range of new insights into Persian visual culture as well as Islamic art history.
The Chester Beatty Library: MSS. 1-150, by A. J. Arberry, M. Minovi, and E. Blochet. Edited by J. V. S. Wilkinson
Author: Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268-c. 1400
Author: Cailah JacksonPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031483677
Category : Mevleviyeh
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It also offers an in-depth and rigorous analysis of the manuscript material, which reveals much about the role of manuscripts in early Mevlevi life, the identity of disciples who were scribes and manuscript owners, and the geographical spread of the Sufi group. The Mevlevi Sufis were one of the most important and prominent socio-religious groups to emerge in late medieval Anatolia, following the Mongol conquests of the 1240s. Sometimes known colloquially as the 'whirling dervishes,' the Mevlevis became particularly powerful under Ottoman rule in the early modern period, even counting some sultans as their disciples. However, there is still much to learn about their earliest days, following the death of their 'patron saint' Jalal al-Din Rumi in 1273. Rumi is of course also notable as the author of the Masnavi, an extensive work of Sufi poetry written in rhyming couplets that is the core of Mevlevi ritual and learning. Beyond Mevlevi circles, Rumi remains very popular today as a 'mystic' poet. This study sheds new light on the intellectual culture of his time. Cailah Jackson is a Research Associate of the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford and former Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
Shahnama
Author: Robert HillenbrandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351548913
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings presents the first comprehensive examination of the interplay between text and image in the celebrated Persian national epic, the Shahnama, written by the poet Firdausi of Tus. The Shahnama is one of the longest poems ever composed and recounts the history of Iran from the dawn of time to the Muslim Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. There is no Persian text, in prose or poetry, which has been so frequently and lavishly illustrated. Offering fresh insights through a range of varied art-historical approaches to the Shahnama, the essays in this volume reveal how the subtle alterations in text and image serve to document changes in taste and style and can be understood as reflections of the changing role of the national epic in the imagination of Iranians and the equally changing messages - often political in nature - which the familiar stories were made to convey over the centuries.