Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad As Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts

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"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"-- Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Transliteration Introduction 1 Uncertain Loyalties 2 Two Governors, Two Paths to Power 1 Hasan Pasa's Universal History 2 The Travels and Deeds of Yusuf Pasa 3 From the Capital to the Province 4 The Garden of the Blessed 1 Fuzuli's Ḥadīḳatü’s-Süʿedā 2 The Brooklyn Museum of Art's Ḥadīḳatü’s-Süʿedā 5 Between the Ottomans and the Safavids: The Ankara Genealogy 1 The Composition of Genealogies at the Ottoman Court 2 The Texts and Their Translations 3 The Ankara Genealogy 4 The Ankara Manuscript and Its Paintings Concluding Remarks Appendix 1 Illustrated Manuscripts Attributed to Baghdad Appendix 2 Single-page Paintings and Dispersed Leaves Attributed to Baghdad Appendix 3 Timeline of Major Events Discussed in the Book Bibliography Index