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In Relational Iconography Georg Leube engages with the courtly culture of the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu dynasties (15th century C.E.) as a key episode in Persianate and Islamicate cultural history.
Author : Georg Leube
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9004541527
In Relational Iconography Georg Leube engages with the courtly culture of the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu dynasties (15th century C.E.) as a key episode in Persianate and Islamicate cultural history.
Author : Gabrielle R. van den Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004356258
Shahnama Studies III focuses on the hugely successful afterlife of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, completed by the poet Firdausi around 1010 AD. This long epic grew out to be an icon of Persian culture and served as a source of inspiration for art and literature, leaving its traces in manifold ways. The contributors to this volume each treat an aspect of the rich legacy of the Shahnama and offer new insights in Shahnama manuscript studies, the illustration of the Shahnama, the phenomenon of later epics, and the Shahnama in later texts and contexts.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004460292
In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues.
Author : Mika Natif
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 900437499X
In Mughal Occidentalism, Mika Natif elucidates the meaningful and complex ways in which Mughal artists engaged with European art and techniques from the 1580s-1630s. Using visual and textual sources, this book argues that artists repurposed Christian and Renaissance visual idioms to embody themes from classical Persian literature and represent Mughal policy, ideology and dynastic history. A reevaluation of illustrated manuscripts and album paintings incorporating landscape scenery, portraiture, and European objects demonstrates that the appropriation of European elements was highly motivated by Mughal concerns. This book aims to establish a better understanding of cross-cultural exchange from the Mughal perspective by emphasizing the agency of local artists active in the workshops of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir.
Author : Eren Tasar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004471170
Spanning the history of Islamic Central Asia from medieval to modern times, this volume features groundbreaking studies of the region’s religious life and culture by leading scholars in the field.
Author : Mustafa Banister
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Classical
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474453370
Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public and private lives of the 18 men invested as caliphs during the period of 'Mamluk' rule in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) and reveals a nuanced understanding of the Abbasid Caliphate according to elite members of Syro-Egyptian society. In doing so, he addresses the function of the caliph and his office amidst the breakdown and recreation of each new socio-political order of the sultanate.
Author : Marek Jan Olbrycht
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9004460764
In Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.): At the Crossroads of Iranian, Hellenistic, and Central Asian History, Marek Jan Olbrycht depicts the early Arsakid Parthian state in northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan within the broader historical context of Western and Central Asia in the post-Achaemenid/Hellenistic period.
Author : Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004432892
This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Hannah-Lena Hagemann
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Classical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474450898
Analyses the narrative function of Khārijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography
Author : Mehrdad Fallahzadeh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004256814
This study provides a critical edition of chapters nine and ten of Muḥīṭ al-tavārīkh (The Sea of Chronicles) by Muḥammad Amīn b. Mīrzā Muḥammad Zamān Bukhārī (Ṣūfīyānī). Muḥīṭ al-tavārīkh is a valuable source for the study of late seventeenth-century Central Asian history, historiography, and language. The present work represents the first critical edition of a primary source of Subḥān Qulī Khān’s reign. The ninth chapter (bāb) offers accounts of the Timurid kings, Abulkhayrid/Shaybanid and the first four Ashtarkhanid/Janid khans. The tenth chapter presents a detailed account of the life and times of “the last great” Ashtarkhanid/Janid khan, Subḥān Qulī Bahādur (1682–1702), revealing historical information essential for scholars of the period and region.