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Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view.
This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah.
Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies.
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
In: Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
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It is generally accepted that the etymology of the Gāndhārī and Sanskrit official title guśura(ka)- has to be sought within the Iranian sphere, but the details remain debatable. In this article, I first give an overview of recently discovered evidence for an early sound change of *w- > * γ w- in some Iranian dialects from the Indo-Iranian borderlands. On this basis, I then propose to derive guśura(ka)- from a dialect form such as * γ wazurg / * γ wuzurg / * γ uzurg < *wazr̥ka- ‘strong’. Two by-products of this article are a new Bactrian etymology for the Gāndhārī personal name G̱aṇavhryaka and some notes on the etymology of the Gāndhārī title sturaka-*.

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In: Iran and the Caucasus