Pearls on a string : artists, patrons, and poets at the great Islamic courts /
"Pearls on a String presents the arts of historical Islamic cultures by focusing on specific people and relationships among cultural tastemakers, especially painters, calligraphers, poets, and their patrons. Through a series of chapters, the book spotlights certain historical moments from acros...
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Baltimore :
The Walters Art Museum,
2015.
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| Online Access: | http://www.asianart.org/ |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Amy S. Landau
- Public works and public lives: biographical sources for patrons, writers, and artists in the premodern Islamicate world / Paul Losensky
- What do inscriptions on objects do? Beyond calligraphy and textual history / Avinoam Shalem
- Transcultural trends, personal desires, and collective agendas / Sussan Babaie
- Great ladies and noble daughters: ivories and women in the Umayyad Court at Córdoba / Glaire D. Anderson, Mariam Rosser-Owen
- Administering art, history, and science in the Mongol Empire: Rashid al-Din and Bolad Chengxiang / Persis Berlekamp, Vivienne Lo, Wang Yidan
- Al-Nasir Muhammad and the formation of the Qalawunid State / Willem Flinterman, Jo Van Steenbergen
- Art and literature in Timurid Herat, 1469-1506: the life and times of Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi / David J. Roxburgh
- Reimagining the "Idol Temple of Hindustan": textual and visual translation of Sanskrit texts in Mughal India / Qamar Adamjee, Audrey Truschke
- Man, mode, and myth: Muhammad Zaman ibn Haji Yusuf / Amy S. Landau
- Armed and splendorous: the jeweled gun of Sultan Mahmud I / Bora Keskiner, Ünver Rüstem, Tim Stanley.