The Seljuqs and Their Successors: Art, Culture and History

ISBN-13: 9781474450348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 328 str.

Sheila Canby; Deniz Beyazit; Martina Rugiadi

Spis treści

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 Selj?q 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-Kh?zin?’s Astronomy Under the Seljuqs: Inferential Observations (i?tib?r), 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 Sh?hn?ma between History and Science, Alessandro Sidoti & Mario Vitalone