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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Art, allegory and the rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565
  name:
    name part: Kia, Chad
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 291 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings. It reveals the hidden meaning behind enigmatic figures and scenes that have puzzled modern scholars, focusing on five 'miniature' paintings. Chad Kia shows how the cryptic elements in these works of art from Timurid Persia conveyed the mystical teachings of Sufi poets like Rumi, Attar and Jami, and heralded one of the most significant events in the history of Islam, the takeover by the Safavids in 1501 and the conversion of Iran to Shiism.
  note: Chad Kia.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
  subject:
    topic: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
  subject:
    topic: Painting, Iranian
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Painting, Iranian
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Shīʻah
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Symbolism in art
  classification: 759.9550902
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
  identifier: 9781474450386
  identifier: 1474450385
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190620
    record change date: 20200117104521.0
    record identifier: in00004081647