In Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting Tawfiq Da?adli decodes the pictorial language which flourished in the city of Herat, modern Afghanistan, under the rule of the last Timurid ruler, Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.1469-1506). This study focuses on one illustrated manuscript of a poem entitled Khamsa by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, kept in the British Library under code Or.6810. Tawfiq Da?adli decodes the paintings, reveals the syntax behind them and thus deciphers the message of the whole manuscript. The book combines scholarly efforts to interpret theological-political lessons embedded in one of the foremost Persian schools of art against the background of the court dynamic of an influential medieval power in its final years.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"L'auteur nous offre une belle synthese des travaux anterieurs a ce sujet tout en proposant une interpretation nouvelle de certaines images." - Aida El Hiari, Sorbonne-Universite, in: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 35 (2021)
"Da?adli's book gives a good impression of the process of "decoding" paintings of the late Timurid period during more than forty years of scholarship and provides some new interpretations." - Ilse Sturkenboom, University of St Andrews, UK, in: Der Islam 97: 1 (2020)
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Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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ISBN-13
978-90-04-39800-9 (9789004398009)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Tawfiq Da?adli, Ph.D. (2012), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Doctor of Art History at that university. He has published articles on Islamic Art and Archaeology.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Historical and Cultural Contexts
?1?The Timurid Empire
?2?The City of Herat
?3?The Kitab-khana in Herat
?4?Ni?ami Ganjavi
2 Focusing the Gaze in Late Timurid Painting
?1?Harun al-Rashid in the ?ammam
?2?The King Who Turned into a Parrot
?3?The Garden Master and the Maidens
?4?Conclusion
3 The Iskandar Cycle
?1?Iskandar and the Philosophers
?2?Iskandar Beats the Drum
?3?Iskandar Meets the Dervish
?4?Conclusion
4 Making Justice
?1?Khusrau before His Father Hurmuz-Shah
?2?Sultan Sanjar and the Old Lady
5 Death and Annihilation
?1?Farhad's Death
?2?Layli's Husband's Death
?3?The Death of Majnun
?4?Building the Khawarnaq Palace
?5?Conclusion
6 Concluding the Poetics of Painting
?1?Enhancing the Meaning
?2?Observations on Space
?3?Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
