Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting

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ISBN 10: 9004398007 / ISBN 13: 9789004398009

Published by Brill Apr 2019, 2019

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Neuware - In Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting Tawfiq Da?adli 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 Da?adli 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting
• Publisher: Brill Apr 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004398007
• ISBN 13: 9789004398009
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 152H x 18D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

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Synopsis

In 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.

About the Author

Tawfiq 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.