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Estelle
J Whelan.
The
Public Image: Political Iconography in Medieval Mesopotamia.
London:
Melisende, October 2006.
200x260mm.
496pp.
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recommended price
Hardback
ISBN
1901764443, £60.00
ISBN-13:
9781901764444
The region known as
al-Jazirah comprises today much of northern Iraq and south eastern
Turkey. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, up to the period of
the Mongol invasions, this area of northern Mesopotamia was the setting
in its major cities for a flourishing material culture. Situated on the
great traditional trade routes between the Middle East and Europe a
central component of this culture evolved around the development of
public figural imagery. An impetus for this development was the
perceived need for political iconography with the coming to power
throughout the region of a group of Turkish dynasties where each needed
to establish itself and enhance its image, legitimacy and authority.
This was particularly reflected in those traditional cynosures of
Islamic hegemony: coinage and architecture.
Two large sections of this
unrivalled and detailed work contain extensively researched material
considering numismatic and architectural details. These sections
describe and investigate the iconography employed with special
attention to sources of the various images, their precedents and use in
related disciplines. Over 300 pages are devoted to numismatics with
original inscriptions and images, and there are over 100 pages
discussing architectural decoration, epigraphy and the iconography
employed. Furthermore, the historical context of the major dynasties
involved is discussed with genealogical charts. The work is supported
by an extensive bibliography..
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