Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity /

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Autor principal: Hedayat Munroe, Nazanin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction: Material Culture and Mysticism in the Persianate World
  • Material Culture and Mysticism
  • The Persianate World
  • Part I
  • 1. Silks, Signatures and Self-fashioning
  • Khamsa Narrative Silks in Scholarship
  • The Famous Naqshband: Unrivalled in the Art of Textile Design
  • Craftsmen and Consumers
  • Self-Fashioning in the Early Modern Persianate World
  • 2. Dressed as King, Lover and Beloved: Khusrau and Shirin
  • Lovers from Nizami's Khamsa
  • The Romantic Tragedy of Nizami's 'Khusrau and Shirin'
  • Khusrau and Shirin in Paintings and Safavid Silks
  • The Gaze and the Body: States of Dress and Undress
  • 3. Weaving Stories, Weaving Self: Layla and Majnun as Sufi Icons
  • The Mystical Love Story of Nizami's 'Layla and Majnun'
  • Layla and Majnun in Poetry, Paintings and Silk Designs
  • The Khamsa of Amir Khusrau
  • Text and Textile in Sufi Poetry
  • Part II
  • 4. The Divine Cloak of Majesty: Material Culture in Sufi Practice
  • Garments as Gifts of Blessing, Piety and Power
  • Chivalry, Spirituality and Materiality in Sufism
  • Khirqa: The Cloak of Spiritual Poverty
  • Khamsa Silk as Khirqa? Figural Silks in Islamic Literary Sources
  • Enrobed: Khil'at in the Early Modern Age
  • 5. Mughal Dress and Spirituality: The Age of Sufi Kings
  • Silk, Sufism and Self-Image at the Mughal Court
  • Figural Silks from Mughal Manufactories
  • Jahangir as King and Lover
  • Ghiyath's Legacy at the Mughal Court
  • 6. Safavid Figural Silks in Diplomacy: Rare Textiles of Novel Design
  • Silk as Commodity in Safavid Iran
  • Figural Silk as Safavid Identity: Sherley and His Rivals
  • Figural Silk as Diplomatic Gifts
  • Safavid and Mughal Gift Giving in Historical Accounts
  • Figural Silks at the Mughal Court
  • Conclusion
  • Reattribution of the Khamsa Silks Based on Paintings and Poetry
  • Textile Designs and Designers
  • Sufi Kings in Mughal India and Safavid Iran
  • Khusrau and Shirin: Love and Kingship
  • Layla and Majnun: Separation and Union
  • Deviations from the Khamsa Characters
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • Appendix A: List of Khamsa Silks
  • Appendix B: Summary of 'Shirin and Khusrau' by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
  • Appendix C: Summary of 'Majnun and Layla' by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
  • Glossary of Textile Terms
  • Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms
  • List of Historic Figures
  • Index
  • List of Illustrations
  • Figure 1.1: Textile fragment depicting Layla and Majnun. Attributed to sixteenth century, Safavid Iran. Silk with metal foil
  • double cloth. L: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm), W: 5 3/8 in. (13.65 cm). The Textile Museum (1969.36.1). Acquired from the Cooper Hewitt Muse
  • Figure 1.2: Textile fragment depicting Khusrau seeing Shirin bathing. Attributed to mid-sixteenth century, Safavid Iran. Silk
  • cut velvet. L: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm), W: 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm). Cleveland Museum of Art (1944.499.b). Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fu

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