Full Description
The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending roughly from the Euphrates to the Hindu Kush and to the Altai.
Among the subjects covered were: 'Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran'; 'The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to 'Abbas I'; 'Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles'; 'Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarkand'; 'The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi: Their Mutual Relationship'; 'Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels' and 'Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad.
Contents
Foreword
LISA GOLOMBEK, Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran
MONIKA GRONKE, The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to ʿAbbas I
BIRGITT HOFFMANN, Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles
R. G. MUKMINOVA, Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarqand
MICHELE BERNARDINI, Aspects littéraires et idéologiques des relations entre aristocratie et architecture à L'époque timouride
EIJI MANO, The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi: Their Mutual Relationship
GÜLRU NECIPOĞLU, Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels
A. ADAMOVA, Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad
ROBERT HILLENBRAND, The Uses of Space in Timurid Painting
GÜNER INAL, Miniatures in Historical Manuscripts from the Time of Shahrukh in the Topkapi Palace Museum
PRISCILLA P. SOUCEK, The Manuscripts of lskandar Sultan: Structure and Content
ELEANOR SIMS, Ibrahim-Sultan's Illustrated Zafarnama of 1436 and Its Impact in the Muslim East
LINDA KOMAROFF, Persian Verses of Gold and Silver: The Inscriptions on Timurid Metalwork
LUDVIK KALUS, Les Armures des Timourides, des Aqqoyunlus, et des Shirvanshahs
YOLANDE CROWE, Some Timurid Designs and Their Far Eastern Connections
G. A. BAILEY, The Dynamics of Chinoiserie in Timurid and Early Safavid Ceramics
CHEN DA-SHENG, Sources from Fujian on Trade between China and Hurmuz in the Fifteenth Century
M. GLUNZ, Sufism, Shiʿism, and Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Iran: The Ghazals of Asiri-i Lahiji
JÜRGEN JAKOBI, Agriculture between Literary Tradition and Firsthand Experience: The lrshād al-ziraʿa of Qasim b. Yusuf Abu Nasri Haravi
