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Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists: A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World

by Esra Akın
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004178724
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 580
  • Original Price: GBP 192.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1180 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Islam / General

The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli's (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive reading of the descriptive and analytic tools of ʿÂli's biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akın-Kıvanç brings to the fore the significance of Epic Deeds not only as a guide to the connoisseurs and aficionados of the time, but also as a fascinating commentary by a prominent intellectual on the spiritual meaning and material value of art.

Esra Akın-Kivanç holds a doctorate (2007) in History of Art from Ohio State University. She has co-authored Sinan's Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-Century Texts (Brill, 2006), and is currently working on a compilation of pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman art-historical texts. She teaches Islamic Art and Architecture at Oberlin College.

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