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Al-Masaq, Vol. 17, No. 2, September 2005 The Court of the Il-khans Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, XII JULIAN RABY AND TERESA FITZHERBERT (Eds), 1996 Oxford: Oxford University Press 218 pp. incl. illus. ISBN 0197280226 This volume collects together papers from the ‘‘Barakat Trust Conference on Islamic Art and History’’ held in Oxford in 1994; this would seem to have been a most stimulating gathering. The essays discuss the intellectual and artistic currents of the...
Al-Masaq, Vol. 17, No. 2, September 2005 The Court of the Il-khans Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, XII JULIAN RABY AND TERESA FITZHERBERT (Eds), 1996 Oxford: Oxford University Press 218 pp. incl. illus. ISBN 0197280226 This volume collects together papers from the ‘‘Barakat Trust Conference on Islamic Art and History’’ held in Oxford in 1994; this would seem to have been a most stimulating gathering. The essays discuss the intellectual and artistic currents of the Ilkhanid court, frequently revolving around the figure of the great Ilkhanid minister Rashid al-Din. The first part of the volume consists of five papers, mostly by historians of politics or diplomacy, but with art historical input; the bulk of the book (pp. 95–218) consists of one work, more certainly art historical in tone, which perhaps could have effectively stood alone as a monograph. The first paper, by Thomas Allsen, examines the career of the Chinese civil servant to both Qubilay and the Ilkhans, Bolad Ch’eng-Hsiang. Bolad is (in)famous as being responsible for the premature introduction of paper money to Iran under the Ilkhan Gaykhatu (1291–1295), but in fact served a series of Ilkhans, seems to have worked closely with Rashid al-Din, and, as Allsen
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Published: Sep 1, 2005
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