Mustafa ʿÂli's Epic deeds of artists : a critical edition of the earliest Ottoman text about the calligraphers and painters of the Islamic world
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Mustafa ʿÂli's Epic deeds of artists : a critical edition of the earliest Ottoman text about the calligraphers and painters of the Islamic world
（Islamic history and civilization, v. 87）
Brill, 2011
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Menākıb-ı hüner-verān
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-434) and indexes
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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 'Ali'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 'Ali's biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akin-Kivanc 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.
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