The Seljuqs and their Successors Art, Culture and History

by Canby, Sheila; Beyazit, Deniz; Rugiadi, Martina

• ISBN13: 9781474450348
• ISBN10: 1474450342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-08-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Sheila R. Canby is Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is co-author with Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi of Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016), co-editor with Maryam Ekhtiar, Navina Najat Haidar, and Priscilla Soucek of Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011) and author of The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011 and 2014), Shah `Abbas: the Remaking of Iran, British Museum Press (2009), Shah `Abbas and the Treasures of Imperial Iran, British Museum Press (2009), Islamic Art in Detail, British Museum Press (2005), Persian Love Poetry, with Vesta Curtis, British Museum Press (2005), among numerous other books.

Deniz Beyazit is Assistant Curator in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is co-author with Sheila Canby and Martina Rugiadi of Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016) and editor of At the Crossroads of Empires: 14th - 15th Century Eastern Anatolia, Paris De Boccard (2012).

Martina Rugiadi is Assistant Curator in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is co-author with Sheila Canby and Martina Rugiadi of Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016).

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Foreward. Sheila Canby, Deniz Beyazit, Martina Rugiadi

Chapter 2: What is special about Seljuq history? Carole Hillenbrand

Chapter 3: Seljuq art: an overview, Robert Hillenbrand

Part II: Rulers and Cities

Chapter 4: Rum Seljuq Caravanserais: Urbs in Rure, Scott Redford

Part III: Faith, Religion and Architecture

Chapter 5: The Religious History of the Great Seljuq Period , Deborah Tor

Chapter 6: Domes in the Seljuq Architecture of Iran, Lorenz Korn

Chapter 7: The Politics of Patronage in Medieval Mosul: Nur al-Din, Badr al-Din, and the Question of the Sunni Revival, Yasser Tabbaa

Part IV: Identities: Rulers and Populace

Chapter 8: Ghaznavid, Qarakhanid and Seljuq monumental inscriptions and the development of royal propaganda: towards an epigraphic corpus, Roberta Giunta & Viola Allegranzi

Chapter 9: Inscribed Identities: Some Monumental Inscriptions in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, Patricia Blessing

Chapter 10: Grasping the Magnitude: Saljuq Rum between Byzantium and Persia, Rustam Shukurov

Part V: Magic and the Cosmos

Chapter 11: A Seljuq occult manuscript and its world: MS Paris persan 174, Andrew Peacock

Chapter 12: Al-Khazini's Astronomy Under the Seljuqs: Inferential Observations (i'tibar), Calendars and Instruments, George Saliba

Part VI: Objects and Material Culture

Chapter 13: Casting Shadows, Margaret Graves

Chapter 14: What's in a Name? Signature, Maker's Mark or Keeping Count: On Craft Practice at Rayy, Renata Holod

Chapter 15: Collaborative Investigations of a Monumental Seljuq Stucco Panel, Leslee Michelsen & Stefan Masarovic

Chapter 16: The Florence Shahnama between History and Science, Alessandro Sidoti & Mario Vitalone