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Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur, circa 1580-1630
- Author(s):
- Keelan Overton (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Art, History, India, Iran, Area studies, Iranians
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Art history, Iranian studies, Manuscript culture, Persian
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/qhzr-0p75
- Abstract:
- This article explores Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah II (r. 1580-1627) and his Bijapur court in light of Indo-Persian processes of taste, intellectualism, and migration. Bijapur is first positioned as a critical stop in cultural peregrinations between Safavid Iran and Mughal India, and Ibrahim is explored as a collector of coveted books, a hitherto uncharted aspect of his identity that confirms his participation, via the mediation of Iranian elites, in widespread patterns of Perso-Islamic sovereignty. Attention subsequently focuses on the itinerant painter Farrukh Husayn, whose most compelling works reconcile Bijapuri and Persianate paradigms while stimulating new questions about artistic agency, peripatetic experience, and knowledge transmission between Greater Iran and the Indian subcontinent.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. Date:
- 2016
- Journal:
- Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World
- Volume:
- 33
- Page Range:
- 91 - 154
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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