Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World)

"Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in its Illustrated Manuscripts focuses on a period of great artistic vitality in the region of Baghdad, a frontier area that was caught between the rival Ottoman and the Safavid empires. In the period following the peace treaty of 1590, a corpus of more than thirty illustrated manuscripts and several single page paintings were produced. In this book Melis Taner presents a contextual study of the vibrant late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century Baghdad art market, opening up further avenues of research on art production in provinces and border regions"-- Provided by publisher Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Illustrations 9 Abbreviations 12 Notes on Transliteration 13 Introduction 14 1 Uncertain Loyalties 27 2 Two Governors, Two Paths to Power 39 1 Hasan Pasa's Universal History 41 2 The Travels and Deeds of Yusuf Pasa 67 3 From the Capital to the Province 85 4 The Garden of the Blessed 109 1 Fuzuli's Ḥadīḳatü’s-Süʿedā 117 2 The Brooklyn Museum of Art's Ḥadīḳatü’s-Süʿedā 120 5 Between the Ottomans and the Safavids: The Ankara Genealogy 159 1 The Composition of Genealogies at the Ottoman Court 160 2 The Texts and Their Translations 161 3 The Ankara Genealogy 165 4 The Ankara Manuscript and Its Paintings 174 Concluding Remarks 189 Appendix 1 Illustrated Manuscripts Attributed to Baghdad 198 Appendix 2 Single-page Paintings and Dispersed Leaves Attributed to Baghdad 201 Appendix 3 Timeline of Major Events Discussed in the Book 204 Bibliography 206 Index 220