Faces of God:Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800 /
Assumptions concerning iconophobia in Islam has meant that scholarship has largely failed to situate figural artworks made for South Asia's Muslim audiences within Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Artworks explored in this book were made for people shaped by Muslim devotion and rit...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2023.
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia ;
39.
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Call Number: BL304
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements IX
- List of Illustrations XIII
- Note on Translation and Transliteration XXVI
- Introduction: The Need for an Ontology of Art
- 1 What Is Islamic Ontology?
- 2 Can "Indian Painting" Be Islamic Painting?
- 3 Ṣūrat and Maʿnī: Islam and Islam
- 4 Presence
- 5 Organization of the Book
- 1 Viewing the Face of a God's Friend: Conceptual and Literary Premises
- 1 Sufism
- 2 Taẕkira Literature
- 3 Looking at the Face of ʿAli Is Worship
- 2 Sufi in the Garb of a Yogi: Visual and Literary Articulations of Sanctity
- 1 The Yogi in Medieval Sufi Romances
- 2 Yogis in Princely Albums
- 3 Allegories, Symbols, and the "Marvelous Magic" of Imperial Mughal Painting
- 1 Akbar: The Saint-King
- 2 Jahangir: The King of Universal Manifestation
- 3 Shah Jahan and the Army of Prayer
- 4 "I Saw My Lord in the Form of a Beardless Youth"
- 1 In the Company of Dervishes
- 2 The Princely Youth, Alone
- 3 Interpreting the Dara Shikoh Album
- 4 Persianate Antecedents for the Dara Shikoh Album
- 5 The Face of Shah ... the Face of God
- 1 Jahanara Begum: Sufi Patron and Practitioner
- 6 Sacred Viewing: Miraculous Gatherings and Iconic Portraits
- 1 The Majlis Paintings
- 2 An Iconography of Devotion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.