List of Platesvii Acknowledgementsix Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting 1 1 Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language 21 2 Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid ManuscriptĄ7 3 The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: ‘The Bearded Man Drowning’ć5 4 Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order 103 5 The Culmination of a Trend: ‘Depraved Man Commits Bestiality’ 135 Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 168 Notesā72 BibliographyĂ35 IndexĂ88īetween pages 134 and 135 1 ‘A Depraved Man Commits Bestiality’, from Haft awrang of Jami, 1556–65 2 ‘The Beggar before the King’, from Mantiq al-tayr of Attar, 1487 3 ‘The Funeral Procession’, from Mantiq al-tayr of Attar, 1487 4 ‘The Bearded Man Drowning’, from Mantiq al-tayr of Attar, 1487 5 ‘Shaykh Mahneh and the Peasant’, from Mantiq al-tayr of Attar, 1487 6 ‘Majnun on Layla’s Tomb’, from Khamsah of Nizami, 1494 7 ‘Layla and Majnun Faint at their Meeting’, from Khamsa of Nizami, 1494 8 ‘Bahram Slays the Dragon’, from Khamsa of Nizami, c. 1490 9 ‘Bahram Slays the Dragon’, from Khamsa of Nizami, 1494 10 ‘Ardavan Captured by Ardashir’, from the Great Mongol Shahnama, 1330s 11 ‘Story of Haftvad and the Worm’, from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, c. 1540 12 ‘Qays First Glimpses Layla’, from Haft awrang of Jami, 1556–65 Published with the support of the University of Edinburgh Scholarly Publishing Initiatives Fund. For more information visit our website: © Chad Kia, 2019 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 11/15 Adobe Garamond by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 5038 6 (hardback) ISBN 5041 6 (webready PDF) ISBN 5040 9 (epub) The right of Chad Kia to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. Mitchell Islam, Christianity and the Realms of the Miraculous: A Comparative Exploration Ian Richard Netton Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers Elizabeth UrbanĮ/series/escihcĮdinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. Bennison Keeping the Peace in Premodern Islam: Diplomacy under the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250–1517 Malika Dekkiche Queens, Concubines and Eunuchs in Medieval Islam Taef El-Azhari The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains Hannah-Lena Hagemann Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library – The Ashrafīya Library Catalogue Konrad Hirschler Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria: The Ibn ‘Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus Konrad Hirschler The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325 Nathan Hofer Defining Anthropomorphism: The Challenge of Islamic Traditionalism Livnat Holtzman Making Mongol History Stefan Kamola Lyrics of Life: Sa‘di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self Fatemeh Keshavarz Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487–1565 Chad Kia A History of the True Balsam of Matarea Marcus Milwright Ruling from a Red Canopy: Political Authority in the Medieval Islamic World, from Anatolia to South Asia Colin P.
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