Lives of the Prophets, The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru's "Assembly of Chronicles".

Lives of the Prophets, The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru's "Assembly of Chronicles".

In Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru's "Assembly of Chronicles" Mohamad Reza Ghiasian analyses two extant copies of the Majmaʿ al-tawarikh produced for the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (r. 1405-1447). The first manuscript is kept in Topkapı Palace and the second is wi...

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Main Author: Mohamad Reza Ghiasian

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Series: Studies in Persian Cultural History 16.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

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World history > Early works to 1800.

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Call Number: D17.H243 Q59 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Foreword /
  • Charles Melville
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures and Tables
  • Introduction
  • The Political and Cultural Setting
  • Book Production under Shahrukh
  • Majmaʿ al-tawarikh and Its Surviving Illustrated Copies
  • Stylistic Analysis
  • Catalogue: The Illustrations of the Prophets
  • Conclusion
  • Translation of the Illustrated Episodes of the Lives of the Prophets Based on Hazine 1653
  • Headings and Illustrations in Hazine 1653
  • Location of Paintings so Far Identified as Later Additions in the Dispersed Manuscript (Second Style)
  • Location of Paintings so Far Identified as Later Additions in the Dispersed Manuscript (Third Style)
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.