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

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 treat...

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Superior document:Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World ; Volume 15
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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.
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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.