| ISBN |
1606068423 (softcover) |
| 9781606068427 (softcover) |
| Title |
Persian cultures of power and the entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian world / edited by Matthew P. Canepa |
| Publisher |
Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2024 |
| Physical desc. |
287 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour); colour map ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Issues & debates |
| Note |
'Presents selected papers from two symposiums ... The first of these took place at the Getty Villa, March 6, 2019, and was cosponsored by the Getty Research Institute, the Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair, and UCI's Jordan Center for Persian Studies. The second was held at UCI's Jordan Center for Persian Studies, June 13, 2020, and was cosponsored by the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute"--Acknowledgments. |
| CB illustration: page 233, figure 7 (Per 119, f. 36b). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Toward a new transmillennial understanding of Perso-Iranian visual, material, and political cultures and their global impact / Matthew P. Canepa -- Trilingual inscriptions: translating language and culture / Rachel Mairs -- 'Position and honor': Iranian sartorial and commensal politics and the transformation of the Afro-Eurasian sensorium of power / Matthew P. Canepa -- Giganticism and Bamiyan: Türk, Iranian, and Chinese traditions of dynasticism / Warwick Ball -- Buried with a silver spoon? Sasanian and East Roman (Byzantine) objects in dialogue in Central Asia and the Caucasus / Stefan R. Hauser -- Between Alexander and Byzantium: notions and concepts of the 'West' in Central Asia (first century BCE-eighth century CE) / Sören Stark and Lauren Morris -- Beyond space and time: Sino-Iranian textiles and the creation of a Eurasian material and visual culture / Mariachiara Gasparini -- From the ground up: Perso-Islamic kingship in southern Asia / Alka Patel -- Shifting power, displaced artists: on the circulation, transformation, and emulation of Persianate manuscripts (1300-1600) / Lamia Balafrej -- How Persianate is it? imitation and refraction in a sixteenth-century cosmography from India / Vivek Gupta -- Early meetings between Parsi merchant princes and Boston Brahmins / Jenny Rose. |
| Corporate name |
Getty Research Institute -- Congresses |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 119 |
| Art, Iranian |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian |
| Architecture -- Iran |
| Textile fabrics, Sassanid |
| Iran -- Civilization -- Congresses |
| Iran -- Relations -- Congresses |
| Iran -- History -- Congresses |
| Iran -- Antiquities -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Canepa, Matthew P. 1975- editor |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Getty Research Institute |
