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The visual world of Muslim India: the art, culture and society of the Deccan in the early modern era

The visual world of Muslim India: the art, culture and society of the Deccan in the early modern era
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ISBN 1848857462 (hbk.)
9781848857469 (hbk.)
Title The visual world of Muslim India : the art, culture and society of the Deccan in the early modern era / edited by Laura E. Parodi ; foreword by Richard M. Eaton
Publisher London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014
Physical desc. xxxii, 366 p. : col. ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Note CBL illustrations: p. 159, fig. 7.2 (In 07A.16); p. 240, fig. 10.2 (In 07A.17); p. [253], fig. 10.8 (In 41.1).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-358) and indexes.
Contents Foreword / Richard M. Eaton -- Introduction / Laura E. Parodi -- Pt. 1: Shaping factors in urban landscapes: symbols, rituals, and practical concerns. The circular cities of the Deccan / Marika Sardar -- Golconda's mosques and tombs: distribution, chronology and meaning / Robert Alan Simpkins -- Medieval Chaul under the Nizam Shahs: an archaeological and historical investigation / Pushkar Sohoni -- Pt. 2: Visual testimonies: identities and beliefs in the mirror of art and architecture. Migrations and cultural transmissions in the Deccan: evidence of monuments at Vijayanagara / George Michell -- The 'Great Mosque' at Gulbarga reinterpreted as the Hazar Sutun of Firuz Shah Bahmani (r. 1397-1422) / Helen Philon -- Deccani guns: features and ornamentation / Klaus Rötzer -- The fighting on the wall: animal symbolism of the Deccan in a Eurasian perspective / Gijs Kruijtzer -- Pt. 3: Dynamics of court art: policy, diplomacy, and the visual. Variations on a Persian theme: The Diwan of Muhammad-Quli Qutb Shah and the birth of the illustrated Urdu Diwan / Laura Weinstein -- A Dutch artist in Bijapur / Deborah Hutton and Rebecca Tucker -- Vida de Jacques de Coutre: a flemish account of Bijapuri visual culture in the shadow of Mughal felicity / Keelan Overton -- Pt. 4: Beyonde the court's boundaries: market goods, folk tales, and popular devotion. Bidri ware and the new Mughal order / Laura E. Parodi -- Gulshan-i 'Ishaq: Sufi romance of the Deccan / Navina Najat Haidar -- Sacred spaces and objects of popular Deccani Muslim devotional practices / Omar Khalidi.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 41
Art -- India
Architecture -- India
Deccan (India) -- History
Deccan (India) -- Civilization
Deccan (India) -- Antiquities
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