Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires
General Material Designation
[book]
Other Title Information
: New Studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal art and Culture
First Statement of Responsibility
\ edited by Kishwar Rizvi.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Brill
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, [2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 222 p.
Other Physical Details
:ill.
SERIES
Series Title
Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World
Volume Designation
; Volume 9
ISSN of Series
,2213-3844 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Index
Text of Note
Bibliography
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction : Affect, emotion, and subjectivity in the early modern period / Kishwar Rizvi -- Chasing after the Muhandis : visual articulations of the architect and architectural historiography / Sussan Babaie -- Who's hiding here? Artists and their signatures in Timurid and Safavid manuscripts / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Ottoman author portraits in the early-modern period / Emine Fetvac -- In defense and devotion : affective practices in early modern Turco-Persian manuscript paintings / Christiane Gruber -- Sentiment in silks : Safavid figural textiles in Mughal courtly culture / Sylvia Houghteling -- The city built, the city rendered : locating urban subjectivity in eighteenth-century Mughal Delhi / Chanchal Dadlani / Faiz Dihlavi's female-centered poems and the representation of public life in late Mughal society / Sunil Sharma -- Mevlevi Sufis and the representation of emotion in the arts of the Ottoman world / Jamal J. Elias.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran, Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period.