Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires: New Studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Art and Culture (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World)

Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran, Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period. Contributors are: Sussan Babaie, Chanchal Dadlani, Jamal Elias, Emine Fetvaci, Christiane Gruber, Sylvia Hougteling, Kishwar Rizvi, Sunil Sharma, and Marianna Shreve Simpson Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires: New Studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Art and Culture 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements and Note on Transliteration 8 List of Figures 9 Notes on Contributors 12 Introduction: Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in the Early Modern Period 14 1 Chasing after the Muhandis: Visual Articulations of the Architect and Architectural Historiography 34 2 Who’s Hiding Here?: Artists and Their Signatures in Timurid and Safavid Manuscripts 58 3 Ottoman Author Portraits in the Early-modern Period 79 4 In Defense and Devotion: Affective Practices in Early Modern Turco-Persian Manuscript Paintings 108 5 Sentiment in Silks: Safavid Figural Textiles in Mughal Courtly Culture 137 6 The City Built, the City Rendered: Locating Urban Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Mughal Delhi 161 7 Fāʾiz Dihlavī’s Female-Centered Poems and the Representation of Public Life in Late Mughal Society 181 8 Mevlevi Sufis and the Representation of Emotion in the Arts of the Ottoman World 198 Index 224 Introduction : afffect, emotion, and subjectivity in the early modern period / Kishwar Rizvi -- Chasing after the Muhandis : visual articulations of the architect and architectural historiography / Sussan Babaie -- Who's hiding here? Artists and their signatures in Timurid and Safavid manuscripts / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Ottoman author portraits in the early-modern period / Emine Fetvaci -- In defense and devotion : afffective practices in early modern Turco-Persian manuscript paintings / Christiane Gruber -- Sentiment in silks : Safavid figural textiles in Mughal courtly culture / Sylvia Houghteling -- The city built, the city rendered : locating urban subjectivity in eighteenth-century Mughal Delhi / Chanchal Dadlani / Faiz Dihlavi's female-centered poems and the representation of public life in late Mughal society / Sunil Sharma -- Mevlevi Sufis and the representation of emotion in the arts of the Ottoman world / Jamal J. Elias Affect, Emotion And Subjectivity In Early Modern Muslim Empires Is A Study Of Art, Literature And Architecture That Considers The Intentions And Motivations Of Patrons And Artists In The Urban And Cultural Milieu Of The Ottoman, Safavid And Mughal Courts.