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Art, allegory and the rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565
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9781474450393 (softcover)
Author
Kia, Chad
Title
Art, allegory and the rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565 / Chad Kia
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019
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ix, 291 pages, 12 pages of plates ; color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
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2021 paperback; first published in hardcover in 2019.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-287) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Coming to terms with meaning in Persian painting -- Poetics of the picture: verbal imagery and visual language -- Remaking Persian painting: didactic Sufism in a Timurid manuscript -- The third station on the path to Sufism: 'the bearded man drowning' -- Fixed-figure prototypes and the symbolic order -- The culmination of a trend: 'depraved man commits bestiality' -- Conclusion: The Sufi synthesis.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Painting, Iranian -- To 1500
Painting, Iranian -- 16th century
Shīʻah -- Iran -- History
Symbolism in art
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