Rumi : a life in pictures / John Renard.

Yer Numarası
A.IX/7276
ISBN
9781474475006 (hardback)
9781474475037 (webready PDF)
9781474475020 (epub)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2021.
Fiziksel Niteleme
xi, 276 sayfa : minyatür (renkli) ; 25 cm.
Dizi
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
Genel Not
İndeks s. [262]-276.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografya s. [246]-261.
İçindekiler Notu
List of figures -- Abbreviations in notes -- Series editor’s foreword -- Preface -- Part I. History and context. Rumi, sufism, and the Sultans in the Medieval ‘Lands of Rum’ -- Islamic hagiography : literary and visual -- Visualised hagiography : manuscript and method -- Part II. Text and image. A virtuous community -- In a muslim society -- Under divine providence -- Conclusion : little images in the big Picture -- Epilogue : meanwhile, over in Agra… -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
“Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a premier Muslim mystic and the original Whirling Dervish, the images in three extant manuscripts of Aflaki's 'Wondrous Feats of the Knowers of God' provide a unique way to interpret the text. Part One: History and Context provides the medieval Anatolian historical setting; the broad contours of literary and artistic works of Islamic Hagiography; and the specific details of the three manuscripts to be explored. Part Two: Text and Image proposes a method for interpreting a hybrid literary-visual document as a grand narrative of the Family Rumi at the inspirational and ethical core of a virtuous community flourishing within a complex Muslim society under divine providence. The images in the three manuscripts were produced by studios of painters under the patronage of major late 16th-century Ottoman sultans. The result of their efforts is a kind of “visualised hagiography“ uniquely capable of suggesting distinctive and often surprising twists on the narratives, enhancing the text with images of striking beauty and rich detail.” -- Yayıncı.