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The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History

The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History

The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History
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The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History

The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History

Overview

Rising from nomadic origins as Turkish tribesmen, the powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs and their successor states dominated vast lands extending from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

Supported by colour images, charts, and maps, this volume examines how under Seljuq rule, migrations of people and the exchange and synthesis of diverse traditions—including Turkmen, Perso-Arabo-Islamic, Byzantine, Armenian, Crusader and other Christian cultures—accompanied architectural patronage, advances in science and technology and a great flowering of culture within the realm. It also explores how shifting religious beliefs, ideologies of authority, and lifestyle in Seljuq times influenced cultural and artistic production, urban and rural architecture, monumental inscriptions and royal titulature, and practices of religion and magic. It also presents today’s challenges and new approaches to preserving the material heritage of this vastly accomplished and influential civilization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474450348
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 06/30/2020
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.77(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sheila R. Canby is Curator Emerita 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 Associate 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). Her other publications include Le décor architectural des Artuqides de Mardin (2016), and as editor, At the Crossroads of Empires: 14th–15th Century Eastern Anatolia (2012).

Martina Rugiadi is Associated Curator in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and and co-director of the Towns of Karakum Archaeological Project. She is co-author with Sheila Canby and Deniz Beyazit of Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016).

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Editors' Introduction 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 Seljūq 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-Khāzinī’s Astronomy Under the Seljuqs: Inferential Observations (iʽtibār), 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 Shāhnāma between History and Science, Alessandro Sidoti & Mario Vitalone

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Nasser Rabbat

A turning point in Islamic history and art history, the Seljuk age is still relatively understudied. In this substantive volume, Canby et al. gather together some of the best scholars in the field to present an integrated collection covering the history, polity, court ethos, architecture, and material culture of the Seljuks. Taken together, these essays enrich our understanding of the Seljuks and contextualize their legacy in relation to its wider Islamic setting and the trajectories of their various successor states.

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