Item Number: 129177 Title: The Visual World of Muslim India : The Art, Culture and Society of the Deccan in the Early Modern Era Author: Parodi, Laura (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781848857469 Description: London: Tauris, 2014. 26cm., hardcover, 366pp. illus., most in color. Contents: Introduction: The Deccan as a Laboratory for the Study of Early Modern Visual Culture ; 1. The Circular Cities of the Deccan ; 2. Golconda's Mosques and Tombs: Distribution, Chronology and Meaning ; 3. Recreating Islam in the Seventeenth-Century Deccan ; 4. Sculpted Representations of Muslims and Bahmani Architectural Influence at Vijayanagara ; 5. The Great Mosque at Gulbarga Reinterpreted as the Hazar Sutun of Firuz Shah Bahmani ; 6. Deccani Guns: Features and Ornamentalism ; 7. The Fighting on the Wall: Animal Symbolism in the Deccan in a Eurasian Perspective ; 8. Variations on a Persian Theme: Persianate Painting at the Court of Golconda ; 9. A Dutch Artist in Biajapur ; 10. Vida de Jacques de Coutre: A Flemish Account of Bijapuri Visual Culture in the Shadow of Mughal Felicity ; 11. East and West: The Deccan and the Outside World ; 12. Bidri Ware and the New Mughal Order ; 13. Gulshan-i 'Ishq: Illustrations of a Sufi Romance of the Deccan ; 14. Sacred Spaces and Objects of Popular Muslim Devotion, Practices and Festivals.
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