Caught in a whirlwind : : a cultural history of Ottoman Baghdad as reflected in its illustrated manuscripts / / Melis Taner.

• Superior document: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World ; Volume 15
• VerfasserIn: Taner, Melis,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2016, under the title: Caught in a whirlwind : painting in Baghdad in the late sixteenth-early seventeenth centuries.

Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in its Illustrated Manuscripts focuses on a period of great artistic vitality in the region of Baghdad, a frontier area that was caught between the rival Ottoman and the Safavid empires. In the period following the peace treaty of 1590, a corpus of more than thirty illustrated manuscripts and several single page paintings were produced. In this book Melis Taner presents a contextual study of the vibrant late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century Baghdad art market, opening up further avenues of research on art production in provinces and border regions.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Uncertain Loyalties -- Two Governors, Two Paths to Power -- From the Capital to the Province -- The Garden of the Blessed -- Between the Ottomans and the Safavids: The Ankara Genealogy -- Concluding Remarks -- Back Matter -- Illustrated Manuscripts Attributed to Baghdad -- Bibliography -- Index.