| ISBN |
0253048915 (softcover) |
| 9780253048912 (softcover) |
| Title |
Iran and the Deccan : Persianate art, culture, and talent in circulation, 1400-1700 / edited by Keelan Overton |
| Publisher |
Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2020 |
| Physical desc. |
xiii, 449 pages ; color illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
CB illustrations: p. 237, fig. 9.3 (Per 395.2). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to Iranian mobilities and Persianate mediations in the Deccan / Keelan Overton -- Iran and the doors to the Deccan, ca. 1400-1650: some aspects / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Excerpt on Yusuf Beg ʻAdil Khan, from Rafi al-Din Shirazi's Tazkirat al-Muluk / translated by Wheeler Thackston -- Ghariban in the Deccan: migration, elite mobility, and the making and unmaking of an early modern state / Roy S. Fischel -- Dynastic self-fashioning and the arts of the pen: Sufi and calligraphy networks between fifteenth-century Shiraz and Bidar / Peyvand Firouzeh -- From Iran to the Deccan: architectural transmission and the madrasa of Mahmud Gavan at Bidar / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom -- Qur'an manuscript no. 106 copied by 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni al-Shirazi and endowed to the shrine of Imam Riza by Ibrahim Qutb Shah / Maryam Habibi, translated by Arash Khazeni -- Vaqfnama of Ibrahim Qutb Shah in the 'Abd al-Qadir Qur'an manuscript endowed to the shrine of Imam Riza / translated by Jake Benson -- Faith and fate: the Khalili Falnama and the Shi'i identity in Golconda / Rachel Parikh -- Indo-Persian histories from the object out: the St. Andrews Qur'an manuscript between Timurid, Safavid, Mughal, and Deccani worlds / Keelan Overton and Kristine Rose-Beers (with contributions by Bruce Wannell) -- The Qit'at-i Khushkhatt album: authenticity and provenance / Jake Benson -- Khalilullah 'Padishah of the pen': royal scribe and ambassador of Shah 'Abbas and Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II / Hamidreza Ghelichkhani, translated by Kimia Maleki and Jake Benson -- Forging a canon of Dakhni literature: translations and retellings from Persian / Sunil Sharma -- On heroes and history: responding to the Shahnama in the Deccan, 1500-1800 / Subah Dayal. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 395 |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire |
| Art -- India |
| Deccan (India) -- Civilization |
| Deccan (India) -- Emigration and immigration |
| Iran -- Emigration and immigration |
| Iran -- Relations -- India |
| India -- Relations -- Iran |
| Added name(s) |
Overton, Keelan 1979- editor |
