Research Catalog

Esoteric images : decoding the late Herat school of painting / by Tawfiq Daʻadli.

Title: Esoteric images : decoding the late Herat school of painting / by Tawfiq Daʻadli.
Author: Daʻadli, Tawfiq, 1979-
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	ND3399.N5 D33 2019	Off-site

Details

Description

xi, 177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; volume 25

Uniform Title

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 25.

Subject

Note

Based on the author's thesis (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012) under alternative title: Pictorial language of the Herat school of painting.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references ([163]-173) and index.

ISBN

9789004398009
9004398007

LCCN

2019010100

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries