Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity / Nazanin Hedayat Munroe.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Material Culture and Mysticism in the Persianate World -- Material Culture and Mysticism -- The Persianate World -- Part I -- 1. Silks, Signatures and Self-fashioning -- Khamsa Narrative Silks in Scholarship -- The Famous Naqshband: Unrivalled in the Art of Textile Design -- Craftsmen and Consumers -- Self-Fashioning in the Early Modern Persianate World -- 2. Dressed as King, Lover and Beloved: Khusrau and Shirin -- Lovers from Nizami's Khamsa -- The Romantic Tragedy of Nizami's 'Khusrau and Shirin'

Khusrau and Shirin in Paintings and Safavid Silks -- The Gaze and the Body: States of Dress and Undress -- 3. Weaving Stories, Weaving Self: Layla and Majnun as Sufi Icons -- The Mystical Love Story of Nizami's 'Layla and Majnun' -- Layla and Majnun in Poetry, Paintings and Silk Designs -- The Khamsa of Amir Khusrau -- Text and Textile in Sufi Poetry -- Part II -- 4. The Divine Cloak of Majesty: Material Culture in Sufi Practice -- Garments as Gifts of Blessing, Piety and Power -- Chivalry, Spirituality and Materiality in Sufism -- Khirqa: The Cloak of Spiritual Poverty

Khamsa Silk as Khirqa? Figural Silks in Islamic Literary Sources -- Enrobed: Khil'at in the Early Modern Age -- 5. Mughal Dress and Spirituality: The Age of Sufi Kings -- Silk, Sufism and Self-Image at the Mughal Court -- Figural Silks from Mughal Manufactories -- Jahangir as King and Lover -- Ghiyath's Legacy at the Mughal Court -- 6. Safavid Figural Silks in Diplomacy: Rare Textiles of Novel Design -- Silk as Commodity in Safavid Iran -- Figural Silk as Safavid Identity: Sherley and His Rivals -- Figural Silk as Diplomatic Gifts -- Safavid and Mughal Gift Giving in Historical Accounts

Figural Silks at the Mughal Court -- Conclusion -- Reattribution of the Khamsa Silks Based on Paintings and Poetry -- Textile Designs and Designers -- Sufi Kings in Mughal India and Safavid Iran -- Khusrau and Shirin: Love and Kingship -- Layla and Majnun: Separation and Union -- Deviations from the Khamsa Characters -- Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix A: List of Khamsa Silks -- Appendix B: Summary of 'Shirin and Khusrau' by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi -- Appendix C: Summary of 'Majnun and Layla' by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi -- Glossary of Textile Terms -- Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms

List of Historic Figures -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Figure 1.1: Textile fragment depicting Layla and Majnun. Attributed to sixteenth century, Safavid Iran. Silk with metal foil -- double cloth. L: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm), W: 5 3/8 in. (13.65 cm). The Textile Museum (1969.36.1). Acquired from the Cooper Hewitt Muse -- Figure 1.2: Textile fragment depicting Khusrau seeing Shirin bathing. Attributed to mid-sixteenth century, Safavid Iran. Silk -- cut velvet. L: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm), W: 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm). Cleveland Museum of Art (1944.499.b). Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fu

Figure 1.3: Textile fragment depicting Layla and Majnun, with the signature 'Work of Ghiyath' (detail), mirrored to show proper direction of the script. Attributed to sixteenth century, Safavid Iran. Silk, with gilded parchment wrapped around silk core

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