ISBN:
9789004549449
,
9789004548831
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Keywords:
Islamic miniature painting Themes, motives
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Miniature painting, Mogul Empire Themes, motives
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Devotion in art
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Aesthetics Religious aspects
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Islam
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Religious and ceremonial art
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Islamic groups: Sufis
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Mysticism
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South Asia (Indian sub-continent)
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c 1500 onwards to present day
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book of history
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cosmology
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Dara Shikoh
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Delhi
;
history
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Indo-Persian
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Islamicate
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Jahanara Begum
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Lahore
;
Mughal
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Mughal art
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Mughal Art History
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Persian
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Persianate
;
Shah Jahan
;
South Asia
;
Sufism
Abstract:
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah. Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies
Abstract:
"Assumptions concerning iconophobia in Islam has meant that scholarship has largely failed to situate figural artworks made for South Asia's Muslim audiences within Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Artworks explored in this book were made for people shaped by Muslim devotion and ritual. Central to this story are the royal Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their spiritual guide Mulla Shah. Among other themes, the book contextualizes artworks made for the imperial siblings by placing them next to their writings, most of which an English reading audience will encounter for the first time"--
Note:
English
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