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OverviewIn Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting Tawfiq Daʿadli 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 Daʿadli 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tawfiq DaʿadliPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 25 Weight: 0.441kg ISBN: 9789004398009ISBN 10: 9004398007 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 18 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts 1 The Timurid Empire 2 The City of Herat 3 The Kitāb-khāna in Herat 4 Niẓāmī Ganjāvī 2 Focusing the Gaze in Late Timurid Painting 1 Hārūn al-Rashīd in the ḥammām 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-Shāh 2 Sultan Sanjar and the Old Lady 5 Death and Annihilation 1 Farhād’s Death 2 Laylī’s Husband’s Death 3 The Death of Majnūn 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 IndexReviewsL'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, 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, Der Islam 97: 1 (2020). Author InformationTawfiq Daʿadli, 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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