The Šāhnāma of Firdawsī

Topkapı Palace Museum Library, Hazine 1499

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ID21779259
AuthorsLâle Uluç (0009-0004-4995-024X, Bogaziçi University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume22
Issue2
Pages117-175
Publication date2025-03-24
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEurasian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1722-0750 • E-ISSN: 2468-5623
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/24685623-20240165
OpenAlexW4408951914
LanguageEN
References cited8

This paper discusses the stylistic and iconographic links between a Safavid copy of the Šāhnāma of Firdawsī (d. 1020) with illustrations dated to the 1520s, and four different centers from the Turko-Persian world in the beginning of the sixteenth century: Herat, Tabriz, Istanbul, and lastly Shiraz. It emphasizes that these artistic exchanges are not just visible through common stylistic characteristics or artists’ nisbas , but also through subtle influences that can be traced across different traditions of book arts, thus providing a nuanced understanding of how the interactions and stylistic overlaps between different manuscript centers may not always be straightforward or unidirectional, but instead reflect a complex web of artistic exchanges and continuities

Art · Linguistics · Literature · Persian · The arts · Visual arts · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy

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