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Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565 4 Edinburgh University Press 5 Contents 6 Plates 8 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting 12 1 Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language 32 2 Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript 58 3 The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: ‘The Bearded Man Drowning’ 86 4 Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order 114 5 The Culmination of a Trend: ‘Depraved Man Commits Bestiality’ 158 Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 258 Index 311
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- Author
- Chad Kia;
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Middle Eastern History, Humanities
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