The 1373 Mas̲navī of Tāj al-Dīn Shaykh Ḥusayn Bey

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
CAILAH JACKSON
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Illuminated Manuscript ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Previous Scholarship

Abstract The fourteenth century saw the production of innumerable Islamic manuscripts, many of which were extensively and expertly illuminated. The period is well-studied, in particular, the products of the ateliers of Baghdad, Tabriz, Shiraz and Cairo. This article concerns a manuscript from a less well-known production centre, namely that of Erzincan. This manuscript is a copy of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī's Mas̲navī produced in 774/1373. Although discussed briefly in previous scholarship (and attributed to Erzincan), there is much more to say about this skilfully and extensively illuminated manuscript. This article examines the manuscript's text, codicology, illuminations, inscriptions and wider historical context. In doing so, it substantiates the manuscript's connection to Erzincan and adds to the growing body of literature concerning the arts of the book of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Rūm.

Impact of the 2020 crises on the arts and culture in the United States: The effect of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement in historical context

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-465
Author(s):  
Stanley N. Katz ◽  
Leah Reisman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement on the arts and cultural sector in the United States, placing the 2020 crises in the context of the United States’s historically decentralized approach to supporting the arts and culture. After providing an overview of the United States’s private, locally focused history of arts funding, we use this historical lens to analyze the combined effects of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement on a single metropolitan area – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We trace a timeline of key events in the national and local pandemic response and the reaction of the arts community to the Black Lives Matter movement, arguing that the nature of these intersecting responses, and their fallout for the arts and cultural sector, stem directly from weaknesses in the United States’s historical approach to administering the arts. We suggest that, in the context of widespread organizational vulnerability caused by the pandemic, the United States’s decentralized approach to funding culture also undermines cultural organizations’ abilities to respond to issues of public relevance and demonstrate their civic value, threatening these organizations’ legitimacy.

scholarly journals Ivan Aleksandăr (1331-1371)

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Alberti
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
First Time

The long reign of Ivan Aleksandăr (1331-1371), the penultimate emperor of Bulgaria prior to the Turkish conquest, was marked by a series of successful military campaigns against Serbia and Byzantium and above all by an intensive cultural production, largely fostered and funded by the sovereign himself. The central decades of the fourteenth century were of crucial importance for the later cultural evolution of Bulgaria and the whole of Orthodox Slovenia, despite which to date ample and exhaustive studies on the figure of Ivan Aleksandăr are lacking. There is, in effect, a considerable amount of information at disposal, although it is scattered over the literary sources, the colophons of the manuscripts, the epigraphic documentation and also, obviously, the official deeds promulgated by the Emperor. Through the analysis of this varied documentation, this book attempts to reconstruct the figure of the sovereign, the context in which he lived and worked, his greatness and his mistakes and his parallel activities as a strategist and an illuminated patron of the arts. For the first time, the Italian reader can find collected and translated all the manuscript sources relating to the Bulgarian sovereign. The book is completed by an appendix with the original texts of the Slavonic-ecclesiastical tradition.

An Iskandarnāma of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lâle Uluç
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Visual Data ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Basic Task ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This paper introduces a copy of the Iskandarnāma of Nizami dated 1435 and dedicated to the Timurid prince Ibrahim Sultan, grandson of the eponymous founder of the Timurid dynasty. It discusses the various features of the manuscript together with comparable examples from the same period, and also focuses on Abu al-Fath Ibrahim Sultan ibn Shah Rukh and his role as both a military leader and a patron of the arts during his tenure as the governor of the provinces of Fars, Kirman, and Luristan (1414–35). Utilizing the visual data together with the historical context of the period, this essay interprets one of the illustrations of the Iskandarnāma, hoping to fulfill what David Summers called “the most basic task of art history,” which he says “is to explain why works of art look the way they look.” The addition of this Iskandarnāma manuscript to the surviving corpus of works that can be connected to Ibrahim Sultan will provide a further insight into the important patronage of this Timurid prince.

scholarly journals Tales Bent Backward: Early Modern Local History in Persianate Transregional Contexts

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEREK J. MANCINI-LANDER
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Local History ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Migration Narratives ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Previous Scholarship

AbstractThis article contributes to a growing body of scholarship on immigrants from Safavid Iran who travelled back and forth between their home cities and Hind during the early modern period. Intending to better comprehend some of the key mentalities and social practices of these cosmopolitan Persianate communities, I explore the literary strategies by which migrants worked to negotiate their place in rapidly transforming and highly competitive political environments in both Hind and Iran. Focusing on migration narratives that were commonly embedded in Persian historical works, I examine a cluster of local and dynastic histories that were composed in dialogue with one another and that emerged around a particular corridor of migration linking the Iranian city of Yazd with various cities in the Deccan. Previous scholarship has argued that immigrants could acquire social capital in their new environments by commemorating ties to Iranian cities through narratives of migration. I demonstrate that migrants also brought migration stories they had found in the Deccan back to their hometowns in Iran, where they redeployed them for similar political ends in new works of history.

scholarly journals The International Kâtip Chalabi Symposium

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Muhammed Haron
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Ottoman History ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Productive Authors

The Constantinople-born Mustafa bin Abdullah Kâtip Chalabi (popularlyknown as Haji Khalifa [1609–57]) was one of the most notable Muslim scholarsof his time. Kâtip Chalabi, as he is known as in Turkish circles, was a reformistscholar known for his intellectual contributions to the social sciences(viz., [Ottoman] history, geography, and economics) and his invaluable biobibliographicaltext Kashf al-Zunūn, which contains over 14,000 entries. Heis generally considered as one of Ottoman Turkey’s most productive authors,for his writings provided an invaluable input to “the classification of knowledge”systems. For this reason, the Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education(ISAR; http://isar.academia.edu), the Turkish Centre for IslamicStudies (ISAM; http://english.isam.org), and the Cairo-based Institute of ArabicManuscripts (MSC; www.manuscriptcenter.org) decided to co-host aMarch 6-8, 2015, symposium to celebrate and address his contributions.The joint Committee for the International Kâtip Chalabi Symposiumchose “Bibliography and the Classification of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization”as its main theme and set numerous goals, among them to (a) raise basicissues related to the Islamic classification of knowledge and bibliography, (b)reveal how this tradition can be reconsidered with respect to the discipline ofbibliography, which has shifted into a new phase due to theoretical and practicaldevelopments in today’s world; (c) provide the necessary basis for discussinghis scholarly achievements; and (d) offer foundations for futureresearch that would build upon his bibliographic encyclopedia Kashf al-Zunūn‘an Asāmī al-Kutub wa al-Funūn (The Removal of Doubt from the Names ofBooks and the Arts).Since it is beyond the scope of this brief report to comment on each presentation,most of which were delivered in Arabic and Turkish with simultaneoustranslations, I have decided to provide a general overview of a selectionof papers from each thematic session.Ahmad Shawqi Benbin (Al-Khazanat al-Malakiyyah al-Hasaniyyah, Morocco),one of the first speakers, addressed “Kashf al- Zunūn and InternationalBibliography,” which related directly to the symposium’s general theme of“Kâtip Chelebi: Philosophy of the Sciences of Bibliography and Classification.”While offering a historical context within which to view Chalabi’s intellectualoutput, he traced the science of bibliography back to Abu al-Faraj ...

scholarly journals The points paradigm 40 years later : an examination of Canada's immigration point system

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Point System ◽  
Growing Body

This study will attempt to analyze the effectiveness of the immigration point system in selecting immigrants. The development of the system within the historical context will be explored as well as the changes that have occurred since its creation until the most recent alterations. Interviews, with a range of opinions, will be analyzed to compliment [sic] secondary data to assess the impacts which have resulted from the point system through its design, operation and theory. These sources will also be used to provide suggestions and recommendations on how the point system could be improved to maximize effectiveness. Ultimately, the goal of this paper is to add to the growing body of literature surrounding this topic and to determine if the point system is indeed an effective method of selection.

Apocalypsis cum Figuris and the Counterculture: A Political Contestation Through Art

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 286-291
Author(s):  
Lidia Olinto do Valle Silva
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski

Apocalypsis cum Figuris (1969) was the last play produced by the Laboratory Theatre and directed by Jerzy Grotowski. This play has many particularities that are linked to the historical context in which it was created: the counterculture period. In the arts, this was also a period of deep questioning in which many artists and groups started to controvert the main paradigms. One of these groups was the Laboratory Theatre. Through a phenomenological analysis, this paper explores the specificities of Apocalypsis, demonstrating how radical changes were proposed in this play, as, for example, the concept of “no play acting.”

Theatre as Inclusive Arts-based Research: A Key to Political Art in the Post-democracy?

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Petro Janse van Vuuren ◽  
Bjørn Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Applied Theatre ◽  
Artistic Research

In this chapter we investigate different approaches to art as research (arts-based) in relation to applied theatre practice and research from a cultural democratic perspective. In particular, we discuss theatre as “inclusive” practice and research and how this relates to different traditions of arts-based research. Based on literature analyses and experiences from Centres of Applied Theatre Research in South Africa and Norway, we unveil some different and dominant traditions of arts-based research that are currently voiced and familiar in Norway and South Africa. We explore four notions of exclusiveness within European notions of “artistic research”: The alternative epistemology, Knowing for the sake of the arts only, The limited artistic context, and Only qualified artists do artistic research. Seen from a different cultural angle, the South African, we find that tendencies of exclusiveness are challenged by different notions of inclusiveness: The role of the arts and its embeddedness in social life, Inter disciplinarity, The extended political and historical context, Embracing intersectionality. As answers to potential accusations of applied theatre art running errands for the liberalist post-democracy, this chapter discusses inclusive arts-based research as a form of cultural praxis that may negotiate paradoxes of post-democracy

Early Fourteenth-century Manuscripts from Konya and Sivas

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-147
Author(s):  
Cailah Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Illuminated Manuscript ◽  
Manuscript Production ◽  
Political Scene

The second chapter concerns manuscripts produced in Konya between 1311 and 1332. This period roughly coincides with the rise of the Turcoman principalities (beyliks) on Rum’s political scene and the final decades of Ilkhanid rule which ended in 1335 with the death of the ruler Abu Saʿid. The seven core manuscripts that comprise the focus of this chapter were produced for Turcoman princes and Mevlevi dervishes. The manuscripts produced for Turcoman (Ashrafid and Qaramanid) patrons include al-Fusul al-Ashrafiyya and a large two-volume Qur’an. Works closely connected to the Mevlevis include a copy of the Intihanama by Sultan Walad, a Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi, and a Masnavi of Sultan Walad. Also discussed is a Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi from Sivas, which had been previously neglected by scholarship. This chapter expands the analysis concerning Mevlevi involvement in illuminated manuscript production that was introduced in Chapter One. It also discusses the historiography of the Turcoman principalities, a thread that will be taken up in Chapters Three and Four.

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