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The art and material culture of Iranian Shi'ism: iconography and religious devotion in Shi'i Islam

The art and material culture of Iranian Shi'ism: iconography and religious devotion in Shi'i Islam
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ISBN 1848851685 (hbk.)
9781848851689 (hbk.)
Title The art and material culture of Iranian Shi'ism : iconography and religious devotion in Shi'i Islam / edited by Pedram Khosronejad
Publisher London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, in association with Iran Heritage Foundation, 2012
Physical desc. [xx], 284 p., [8] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Series International library of Iranian studies 29
Note 2014 reprint.
CBL illustrations: p. 56, fig. 5 (Per 182, f. 5r).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Pt. 1: Shi'i devotional iconography and symbolism. Icon and meditation: between popular art and Sufism in Imami Shi'ism / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- When Nubuvvat encounters Valayat: Safavid paintings of the Prophet Mohmmad's Mi'raj, c. 1500-50 / Christiane Gruber -- The pictorial representation of Shi'i themes in lithographed books of the Qajar period / Ulrich Marzolph -- The lion of Ali in Anatolia: history, symbolism and iconology / Thierry Zarcone -- Calligraphic lions symbolising the esoteric dimension of 'Ali's nature / Raya Shani -- Pt. 2: Shi'i rituals, pious artefacts and material culture. The votive image in Iranian Shi'ism / Ingvild Flaskerud -- The horse of Imam Hoseyn: notes on the iconography of Shi'i devotional posters from Pakistan and India / Jurgen Wasim Frembgen -- Lions' representation in Bakhtiari oral tradition and funerary material culture / Pedram Khosronejad -- The iconography of Ali as the lion of God in Shi'i art and material culture / Fahimida Suleman -- Prayer and prostration: Imami Shi'i discussions of al-sujud 'ala al-turba al-Husayniyya / Robert Gleave -- Talismans from the Iranian world: a millenary tradition / Ziva Vesel.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 182
Islamic art -- Iran
Islamic art and symbolism
Islamic architecture -- Iran
Shīʻah -- Iran
Added name(s) Khosronejad, Pedram
Series Added Entry Iran and the Persianate world
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