Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Plates vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting 1
6. 1. Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language 21
7. 2. Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript 47
8. 3. The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: ‘The Bearded Man Drowning’ 75
9. 4. Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order 103
10. 5. The Culmination of a Trend: ‘Depraved Man Commits Bestiality’ 135 Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 135
11. Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 168
12. Notes 172
13. Bibliography 235
14. Index 288