TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hedayat Munroe,Nazanin
TI  - Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity
T2  - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700
SN  - 9789048551149
U1  - 746.0439 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Love in art
KW  - Silk, Safavid
KW  - History
KW  - Sufism in art
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - DESIGN / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Safavid, Mughal, Silk, Nizami, Khamsa
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Illustrations --; Note on Transliteration --; Introduction: Material Culture and Mysticism in the Persianate World --; Part I --; 1. Silks, Signatures and Self-fashioning --; 2. Dressed as King, Lover and Beloved: Khusrau and Shirin --; 3. Weaving Stories, Weaving Self: Layla and Majnun as Sufi Icons --; Part II --; 4. The Divine Cloak of Majesty: Material Culture in Sufi Practice --; 5. Mughal Dress and Spirituality: The Age of Sufi Kings --; 6. Safavid Figural Silks in Diplomacy: Rare Textiles of Novel Design --; Conclusion --; Appendix A: List of Khamsa Silks --; Appendix B: Summary of ‘Shirin and Khusrau’ by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi --; Appendix C: Summary of ‘Majnun and Layla’ by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi --; Glossary of Textile Terms --; Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms --; List of Historic Figures --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This book examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. Codified by Nizami Ganjavi in the twelfth century, the Khamsa gained popularity in the Persian-speaking realm through illustrated manuscripts produced for the elite, creating a template for illustrating climactic scenes in the love stories of “Layla and Majnun” and “Khusrau and Shirin” that appear on early modern silks. Attributed to Safavid Iran, the publication proposes that dress fashioned from these silks represented Sufi ideals based on the characters. Migration of weavers between Safavid and Mughal courts resulted in producing goods for a sophisticated and educated elite, demonstrating shared cultural values and potential reattribution. Through an examination of primary source materials, literary analysis of the original text, and close iconographical study of figural designs, the study presents original cross-disciplinary arguments about patronage, provenance, and the socio-cultural significance of wearing these silks
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048551149?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048551149
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048551149/original
ER  -