Timurid Art and Culture

Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-90-04-25958-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 267 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Muqarnas, Supplements

The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending roughly from the Euphrates to the Hindu Kush and to the Altai.
Among the subjects covered were: 'Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran'; 'The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to ‘Abbas I'; 'Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles'; 'Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarkand'; 'TheBaburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi: Their Mutual Relationship'; 'Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels' and 'Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in the visual culture of the Islamic world. Studies and Sources on Islamic Art and Architecture: Supplements to Muqarnas contain textual primary sources for visual culture and scholarly historical examinations of topics and issues in Islamic art, architecture and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golombek

Subtelny, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

LISA GOLOMBEK, Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran
MONIKA GRONKE, The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to 'Abbas I
BIRGITT HOFFMANN, Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles
R. G. MUKMINOVA, Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarqand
MICHELE BERNARDINI, Aspects littéraires et idéologiques des relations entre aristocratie et architecture à L'époque timouride
EIJI MANO, The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi: Their Mutual Relationship
GÜLRU NECIPOGLU, Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels
A. ADAMOVA, Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad
ROBERT HILLENBRAND, The Uses of Space in Timurid Painting
GÜNER INAL, Miniatures in Historical Manuscripts from the Time of Shahrukh in the Topkapi Palace Museum
PRISCILLA P. SOUCEK, The Manuscripts of lskandar Sultan: Structure and Content
ELEANOR SIMS, Ibrahim-Sultan's Illustrated Zafarnama of 1436 and Its Impact in the Muslim East
LINDA KOMAROFF, Persian Verses of Gold and Silver: The Inscriptions on Timurid Metalwork
LUDVIK KALUS, Les Armures des Timourides, des Aqqoyunlus, et des Shirvanshahs
YOLANDE CROWE, Some Timurid Designs and Their Far Eastern Connections
G. A. BAILEY, The Dynamics of Chinoiserie in Timurid and Early Safavid Ceramics
CHEN DA-SHENG, Sources from Fujian on Trade between China and Hurmuz in the Fifteenth Century
M. GLUNZ, Sufism, Shi'ism, and Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Iran: The Ghazals of Asiri-i Lahiji
JÜRGEN JAKOBI, Agriculture between Literary Tradition and Firsthand Experience: The lrshad al-zira'a of Qasim b. Yusuf Abu Nasri Haravi

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Golombek, Ph.D. (1968) University of Michigan, is Curator Emeritus (Royal Ontario Museum) and Professor Emeritus (University of Toronto). Her publications on Islamic art range from architecture to portable objects and include The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan (Princeton University Press 1988), Tamerlane’s Tableware (ROM press 1996) and Persian Pottery in the First Global Age (BRILL 2014)

Maria E. Subtelny, PhD (1979) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. She has published extensively on the Timurids and on medieval Iranian and Central Asian cultural history. Her book Le monde est un jardin: Aspects de l’histoire culturelle de l’Iran médiéval (Paris, 2002) received the Saidi–Sirjani Book Award. Recent publications are Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran (BRILL, 2007); “Visionary Rose: Metaphorical Interpretation of Horticultural Practice in Medieval Persian Mysticism” (2007) and “The Traces of the Traces: Reflections of the Garden in the Persian Mystical Imagination” (2008)