| ISBN |
0295995246 (hbk.) |
| 9780295995243 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Pearls on a string : artists, patrons, and poets at the great Islamic courts / edited by Amy S. Landau |
| Publisher |
Baltimore : Walters Art Museum, Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2015 |
| Physical desc. |
xi, 259 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Published to accompany an exhibition held 8 November 2015-31 January 2016 at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and 26 February-8 May 2016 at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. |
| Maps at endpapers. CBL illustrations: p. 144, fig. 5.1 (In 03, f. 263b); p. [175], fig. 6.3 (Per 277.3); p. 182, fig. 6.7 (Per 277.16); p. 182, fig. 6.8 (Per 277.7). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Amy S. Landau -- Public works and public lives: biographical sources for patrons, writers, and artists in the premodern Islamicate world / Paul Losensky -- What do inscriptions on objects do? beyond calligraphy and textual history / Avinoam Shalem -- Transcultural trends, personal desires, and collective agendas / Sussan Babaie -- Great ladies and noble daughters: ivories and women in the Umayyad court at Córdoba / Glaire D. Anderson, Mariam Rosser-Owen -- Administering art, history, and science in the Mongol Empire: Rashid al-Din and Boland Chengxiang / Persis Berlekamp, Vivienne Lo, Wang Yidan -- Al-Nasir Muhammad and the formation of the Qalawunid state / Willem Flinterman, Jo Van Steenbergen -- Art and literature in Timurid Herat, 1469-1506: the life and times of Sultan 'Ali Mashadi / David J. Roxburgh -- Reimagining the 'idol temple of Hindustan': textual and visual translation of Sanskrit texts in Mughal India / Qamar Adamjee, Audrey Truschke -- Man, mode, and myth: Muhammad Zaman ibn Haji Yusuf / Amy S. Landau -- Armed and splendorous: the jeweled gun of Sultan Mahmud I / Bora Keskiner, Ünver Rüstem, Tim Stanley. |
| Corporate name |
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) -- Exhibitions |
| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 03 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 277 |
| Islamic civilization -- Exhibitions |
| Arts and society -- Islamic Empire -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic art -- Exhibitions -- Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Themes, motives |
| Islamic Empire -- Civilization -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) |
Landau, Amy S. (Amy Sue) ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) |
| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
