• 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.
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    Published as:
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    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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