Caught in a Whirlwind : a Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad As Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
- Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World Series ; v.15 .
- Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World Series .
Intro -- Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 Uncertain Loyalties -- 2 Two Governors, Two Paths to Power -- 1 Hasan Pasa's Universal History -- 2 The Travels and Deeds of Yusuf Pasa -- 3 From the Capital to the Province -- 4 The Garden of the Blessed -- 1 Fuzuli's Ḥadīḳatü's-Süʿedā -- 2 The Brooklyn Museum of Art's Ḥadīḳatü's-Süʿedā -- 5 Between the Ottomans and the Safavids: The Ankara Genealogy -- 1 The Composition of Genealogies at the Ottoman Court -- 2 The Texts and Their Translations -- 3 The Ankara Genealogy -- 4 The Ankara Manuscript and Its Paintings -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 Illustrated Manuscripts Attributed to Baghdad -- Appendix 2 Single-page Paintings and Dispersed Leaves Attributed to Baghdad -- Appendix 3 Timeline of Major Events Discussed in the Book -- Bibliography -- Index.
In this monograph Melis Taner studies the cultural and artistic contexts of illustrated manuscript production in late sixteenth and early seventeenth Baghdad under Ottoman rule.