Chad Kia

Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi'ism in Iran, 1487-1565 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474450416
• Artikelnr.: 72420464

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting
1. Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language
2. Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript
3. The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: The Bearded Man Drowning
4. Fixed-Figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order
5. The Culmination of a Trend: "Depraved Man Commits Bestiality"
Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis
Notes
Illustrations
Bibliography.