TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kia,Chad
TI  - Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi'ism in Iran, 1487-1565
T2  - Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
SN  - 9781474450416
AV  - DS292 .A783 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
KW  - Painting, Iranian
KW  - To 1500
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Shī.Aah
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - Symbolism in art
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Intro; Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565; Edinburgh University Press; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting; 1 Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language; 2 Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript; 3 The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: 'The Bearded Man Drowning'; 4 Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order; 5 The Culmination of a Trend: 'Depraved Man Commits Bestiality'; Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings
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ER  -