The Seljuqs and their Successors : : Art, Culture and History / / Martina Rugiadi, Sheila Canby, Deniz Beyazit.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Canby, Sheila,; Beyazit, Deniz,; Rugiadi, Martina,
• MitwirkendeR: Allegranzi, Viola,; Beyazit, Deniz,; Blessing, Patricia,; Canby, Sheila R.,; Giunta, Roberta,; Graves, Margaret S.,; Hillenbrand, Carole,; Hillenbrand, Robert,; Holod, Renata,; Korn, Lorenz,; Masarovic, Stefan,; Michelsen, Leslee,; Peacock, A. C. S.,; Redford, Scott,; Rugiadi, Martina,; Saliba, George,; Shukurov, Rustam,; Sidoti, Alessandro,; Tabbaa, Yasser,; Tor, D. G.,; Vitalone, Mario,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art : ESIA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 200 colour illustrations Images, charts and maps

Renowned scholars present key new thinking on art, sciences, belief and history in the Seljuq periodDraws on new and updated use of historical sources Opens new paths in the research on magic beliefs, religion, astronomy, the concept of craftsmanship versus artistry, interaction between rulers and e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Series Editor’s Foreword
• The Contributors
• Editor’s Note on Transliteration
• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 Editors’ Introduction
• CHAPTER 2 What is Special about Seljuq History?
• CHAPTER 3 Seljuq Art: An Overview
• PART TWO: RULERS AND CITIES
• CHAPTER 4 Rum Seljuq Caravanserais: Urbs in Rure
• PART THREE: FAITH, RELIGION AND ARCHITECTURE
• CHAPTER 5 The Religious History of the Great SeljËq Period
• CHAPTER 6 Domes in the Seljuq Architecture of Iran
• CHAPTER 7 The Politics of Patronage in Medieval Mosul: Nur al-Din, Badr al-Din and the Question of the Sunni Revival
• PART FOUR: IDENTITIES: RULERS AND POPULACE
• CHAPTER 8 Ghaznavid, Qarakhanid and Seljuq Monumental Inscriptions and the Development of Royal Propaganda: Towards an Epigraphic Corpus
• CHAPTER 9 Inscribed Identities: Some Monumental Inscriptions in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus
• CHAPTER 10 Grasping the Magnitude: Saljuq Rum between Byzantium and Persia
• PART FIVE: MAGIC AND THE COSMOS
• CHAPTER 11 A Seljuq Occult Manuscript and its World: MS Paris persan 174
• CHAPTER 12 Al-KhåzinÈ’s Astronomy under the Seljuqs: Inferential Observations (iʽtibår), Calendars and Instruments
• PART SIX: OBJECTS AND MATERIAL CULTURE
• CHAPTER 13 Casting Shadows
• CHAPTER 14 What’s in a Name? Signature, Maker’s Mark or Keeping Count: On Craft Practice at Rayy
• CHAPTER 15 Collaborative Investigations of a Monumental Seljuq Stucco Panel
• CHAPTER 16 The Florence Shåhnåma between History and Science
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index