Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800

Murad Khan Mumtaz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

378 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54883-1 (ISBN)

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The book is a foundational survey addressing the overlooked theme of devotional expression in early modern Indo-Muslim painting. Recognizing this as a subject and understanding its multivalent role disrupts longstanding misconceptions about the purview of Islamic art.

Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view.

This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah.

Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies.

Murad Khan Mumtaz, Ph.D. (2018), University of Virginia, is Assistant Professor at Williams College. He has published numerous articles on South Asian painting. Mumtaz is also a practicing artist trained in traditional Hindustani painting techniques.

Acknowledgements IX

List of Illustrations XIII

Note on Translation and Transliteration XXVI

Introduction: The Need for an Ontology of Art

1 What Is Islamic Ontology?

2 Can “Indian Painting” Be Islamic Painting?

3 Ṣūrat and Maʿnī: Islam and Islam

4 Presence

5 Organization of the Book

1 Viewing the Face of a God’s Friend: Conceptual and Literary Premises

1 Sufism

2 Taẕkira Literature

3 Looking at the Face of ʿAli Is Worship

2 Sufi in the Garb of a Yogi: Visual and Literary Articulations of Sanctity

1 The Yogi in Medieval Sufi Romances

2 Yogis in Princely Albums

3 Allegories, Symbols, and the “Marvelous Magic” of Imperial Mughal Painting

1 Akbar: The Saint-King

2 Jahangir: The King of Universal Manifestation

3 Shah Jahan and the Army of Prayer

4 “I Saw My Lord in the Form of a Beardless Youth”

1 In the Company of Dervishes

2 The Princely Youth, Alone

3 Interpreting the Dara Shikoh Album

4 Persianate Antecedents for the Dara Shikoh Album

5 The Face of Shah … the Face of God

1 Jahanara Begum: Sufi Patron and Practitioner

6 Sacred Viewing: Miraculous Gatherings and Iconic Portraits

1 The Majlis Paintings

2 An Iconography of Devotion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia ; 39
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	874 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-54883-1 / 9004548831
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54883-1 / 9789004548831
Zustand	Neuware