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The first and only book on one of the finest private collections of
contemporary Iranian art This sumptuous volume features almost 250
contemporary artworks and a selection of medieval and early modern
Islamic art - the heralded collection of Mohammed Afkhami, a
prominent player at the cultural and regional front line of Middle
Eastern art. Honar (meaning 'art' in Farsi, the language of Iran),
includes works ranging from the disturbingly subversive to
exquisitely inclusive, exhibiting the pain of exile, the querying
of ideology, and the artistic insistence on personal independence.
The Safavid dynasty represented the pinnacle of Iran’s power and
influence in its early modern history. The evidence of this – the
creation of a nation state, military expansion and success,
economic dynamism and the exquisite art and architecture of the
period is well-known. What is less understood is the extent to
which the Safavid success depended on an elite originating from
outside Iran: the slaves of Caucasian descent and the Armenian
merchants of Isfahan. This book describes how these elites,
following their conversion to Islam, helped to transform
Isfahan’s urban, artistic and social landscape.
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MYAL - My Aleppo (Hardcover)
Mafaldo Ade, Pierre Antaki, Joerg Armbruster, Rasha Arous, Lina Sergie Attar, …
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R1,872
R1,211
Discovery Miles 12 110
Save R661 (35%)
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This title includes a book & CD. Aleppo is not perceived
outside the Arab world as a "metropolis" - at the same limo,
though, the city with a five thousand year old history is one of
the world's oldest cities. In this way, "MYAL (My Aleppo)" is to be
understood as a special study about the development of the term
metropolis and asks the fundamental question how a "metropolis"
should be defined. Today, the city of almost three million people
is the industrial and commercial capital of Syria, where, in a
fascinating way, tradition and modernity, and East and West meet.
"MYAL (My Aleppo)" attempts not only to show the "sights" of
Aleppo, but to show the "inner sights" from the life of the
Aleppines: city structures as well as life and customs that have
been developed over centuries and now are subject to a rapid
process of transformation due to altered social, economic, and
political conditions. These are more everyday images of local
people and foreigners, visible and invisible, from the narrow
quarters of the Old City and the Souk with its noisy intimacy, the
view from the Citadel out across the city, and from submerging into
the partially strange and hidden worlds of Aleppo and its
inhabitants. At the heart of the book are photos from the period
around 1900 taken, among others, from the archive of Poche-Marrache
and the archive from Thierry, Grandin, as well as photographs of
different photographers from more recent years. These images are
supplemented by articles From different authors about daily life in
Aleppo. During the production of this book, a mood of change
manifested itself in Syrian society, the results of which are not
yet foreseeable. So, the articles in this volume perhaps document
something that will (or may) soon belong in part to the past. The
CD with songs from Abed Azrie from Aleppo completes the triad of
the city along with the articles and photographs.
Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the
domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities,
chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the
Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the
lands that make up today's Iran, including the area of greater
Khorasan. The Persian language gained unprecedented currency over
Arabic and new buildings and manuscripts were produced for princely
patrons with aspirations to don the Iranian crown of kingship. This
new volume in "The Idea of Iran" series follows the complexities
surrounding the cultural reinvention of Iran after the Mongol
invasions, but the book is unique capturing not only the effects of
Mongol rule but also the period following the collapse of
Mongol-based Ilkhanid rule. By the mid-1330s the Ilkhanate in Iran
was succeeded by alternative models of authority and local Iranian
dynasties. This led to the proliferation of diverse and competing
cultural, religious and political practices but so far scholarship
has neglected to produce an analysis of this multifaceted history
in any depth. Iran After the Mongols offers new and cutting-edge
perspectives on what happened. Analysing the fourteenth century in
its own right, Sussan Babaie and her fellow contributors capture
the cultural complexity of an era that produced some of the most
luminous masterpieces in Persian literature and the most
significant new building work in Tabriz, Yazd, Herat and Shiraz.
Featuring contributions by leading scholars, this is a wide-ranging
treatment of an under-researched period and the volume will be
essential reading for scholars of Iranian Studies and Middle
Eastern History.
The Savafid dynasty represented, in political, cultural and
economic terms the pinnacle of Iran's power and influence in its
early modern history. The evidence for this -the creation of a
nation state, military expansion and success, economic dynamism and
the exquisite art and architecture of the period - is well-known.
What is less understood is the extent to which the Safavid success
depended on - and was a product of - a class of elite originating
from outside Iran: the slaves of Caucasian descent and the Armenian
merchants of New Julfa in the city of Isfahan. It was these groups,
bolstered by Shah Abbas the Great (1589 - 1629) and his successors,
who became the pillars of Safavid political, economic and cultural
life. This book describes how these elites, following their
conversion to Islam, helped to form a new language of Savafid
absolutism. It documents their contributions, financed by the
Armenian trade in Safavid silk, to the transformation of Isfahan's
urban, artistic and social landscape. The insights provided here
into the multi-faceted roles of the Safavid royal household offer
an original and comprehensive study of slave elites in imperial
systems common to the political economies of the Malmuk, Ottoman
and Safavid courts as well as contributing to the earlier Abbasid,
Ghaznavid and Saljuq eras. As such this book makes an original and
important contribution to our understanding of the history of the
Islamic world from the 16th to the 18th centuries and will prove
invaluable for students and scholars of the period.
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