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Author Kia, Chad.

Title Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi'ism in Iran, 1487-1565.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
Contents Intro; Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565; Edinburgh University Press; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting; 1 Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language; 2 Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript; 3 The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: 'The Bearded Man Drowning'; 4 Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order; 5 The Culmination of a Trend: 'Depraved Man Commits Bestiality'; Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-287) and index.
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Subject Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian.
Painting, Iranian -- To 1500.
Painting, Iranian.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Painting, Iranian -- 16th century.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Shīʻah -- Iran -- History.
Shīʻah.
Iran.
History.
Symbolism in art.
Symbolism in art.
Chronological Term To 1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kia Chad, Chad. Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi'ism in Iran, 1487-1565. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2019
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