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Art, allegory and the rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781474450393 (softcover)
Author	Kia, Chad
Title	Art, allegory and the rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565 / Chad Kia
Publisher	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019
Physical desc.	ix, 291 pages, 12 pages of plates ; color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
Note	2021 paperback; first published in hardcover in 2019.
Bibliography etc.	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.
Subject	Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
	Painting, Iranian -- To 1500
	Painting, Iranian -- 16th century
	Shīʻah -- Iran -- History
	Symbolism in art

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