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Shah Abbas, the remaking of Iran


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Éditeur : British museum press Date & Lieu : 2009, London
Préface : Pages : 274
Traduction : ISBN : 978 0 7141-2452-0
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 470x600 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang.Thème : Histoire

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Shah Abbas, the remaking of Iran

Shah Abbas, the remaking of Iran

Sheila R. Canby

British museum press


This exhibition is one or a series devoted 10 rulers who have shaped the world. and whose legacy is still significant today. There can be no doubt that Shah 'Abbas I, who transformed Iran in the years around 1600, is one such ruler. Presenting him to a modern public is not entirely straightforward. European monarchs: arc generally familiar to us through mass-produced official portraits. Shah Abbas. as a Muslim ruler, left no public paintings or sculptures of his likeness, not even on his coins. So in exhibition. apart from a few small. private portraits, we have to approach him and assess him on his achievements. They were remarkable.

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Sheila R. Canby

Shah Abbas, the remaking of Iran

The British museum press


The British museum press
This book is published 10 accompany the exhibition at the
British Museum from 19 February 10 14 June 2009

© 2009 The Trustees of the British Museum
Text pp. 88-97 © 2009 Robert Gleave
Text pp. 98-1 15 © 2009 Kishwar Rizvi

Sheila Canby has asserted the right to be identified as the as the author of this work

First published in 2009 by the British Museum Press
A division of The British Museum Company ltd
38 Russell Square. London WCIB 3QQ
www.britishmuseum.org

A catalogue, record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN (cased) 978•0-7141-2456-8
ISBN (paperback) 978•0•7141-2452-0

Designed by Price Watkins
Printed in Italy by Printer Trento

Half Title: cat. no. 115 (pp. 236-7)
Frontis piece: cal. no. 110 detail (pp. 230-31)
Left and opposite: cat. no. 84 detail (pp. 174-5)
Opposite p. 1: cat. no. 13 (pp. 52-3)
p. 4: cat. no. 123 (pp. 250-51)
pp. 10-11: fig. 56 (pp.128-9)

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Contributors


Major contributions by;

Robert Gleave
Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter, UK

Kishwar Rizvi
Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture,
Yale University. USA

Additional contributions by:

Robert Elgood
Research Fellow. Eastern European, Islamic and
Asian Arms and Armour, The Wallace Collection, UK

E. K. Faridany
Independent Scholar. London, UK

Jessica Harrison-Hall
Curator, Department of Asia, British Museum, UK

Martin Royalton-Kisch
Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings,
British Museum. UK

Mahnaz Rahimifar
Head of the Islamic Art Department,
National Museum of Iran, Iran

Fahmida Suleman
Research Assistant, Department of the Middle East,
British Museum, UK

Jon Thompson
Former May Hamilton Beattie Fellow in Carpet Studies,
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK

 




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