Vague Traits

• Sara Mondini - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

Introduction

• Introduction
• Stefano Pellò

0   Crossings

• Sui confini della poesia
• Gianroberto Scarcia

1   A Marchland of Words

• Additional Considerations about Ved. Síndhu-, Av. Hiṇdu-/Həṇdu
• Antonio Panaino

• Arabic ḥadd in Iranian
  Notes on Some Cases of Grammaticalization
• Ela Filippone

2   Inspecting Perimeters

• If these Walls Could Speak
   The Barrier of Alexander, Wall of Darband and Other Defensive Moats
• Touraj Daryaee

• Cycles and Circumferences
  The Tower of Gonbad-e Kāvus as a Time-Marking Monument
• Simone Cristoforetti

3   Iconography on a Threshold

• Flying over Boundaries
  Auspicious Birds in Sino-Sogdian Funerary Art
• Matteo Compareti

• Vague Traits
  Strategy and Ambiguities in the Decorative Programme of the Aḥmad Šāh I Bahmanī Mausoleum
• Sara Mondini

4   Lines of Transition

• Kashmir and the Mughal Fad of Persian Pastoral Poetry
• Sunil Sharma

• A Linguistic Conversion
  Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥasan Qatīl and the Varieties of Persian (ca. 1790)
• Stefano Pellò

5   On the Limes

• A World In-between
  The Pre-Islamic Cultures of the Hindu Kush
• Augusto Cacopardo

• Transregional Intoxications
  Wine in Buddhist Gandhara and Kafiristan
• Max Klimburg

6   Identity and the Others

• Marginalia on the Idea of Boundary and the Discourse on Identity in Iran
• Bianca Maria Scarcia Amoretti

• Perceptions and Treatments of the Close Other in Northern Iran
• Christian Bromberger

7   Mirrors and Beyond

• Certified Copy
  The Thin Line between Original and Original
• Marco Dalla Gassa

• Crossing Borders
  Iranian Landscapes as Visual Prototypes around the World
• Riccardo Zipoli

DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_114
dc.contributor.author	Mondini Sara
dc.title	Vague Traits. Strategy and Ambiguities in the Decorative Programme of the Aḥmad Šāh I Bahmanī Mausoleum
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The essay  reconsiders the decorative programme of the Aḥmad Šāh I Bahmanī (r. 1422-1436) mausoleum in Ashtur (Bidar, modern Karnataka) focusing, in particular,  on the inscriptions adorning the dome. The reign of the ninth Bahmanī sovereign was marked by a growing complexity as far as the socio-political and religious context is concerned, and also, by a deepening divide between āfāqīs and dakhnīs, and the arrival of the first exponents of the Ni‘matullāhiyya Sufi order in the Deccan. The region witnessed a marked interplay between temporal and spiritual power, and the religious orientation of Aḥmad Šāh I remains debated. By making some specific remarks concerning the decorative scheme and the epigraphic programme of the mausoleum, we not only discuss the idea of the king’s adherence to Shi‘a Islam, but also provide valid support for historians wishing to reconsider the process of Shi‘ization of Deccan and of the Sufi order itself.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasiatica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-08-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-101-0/vague-traits/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-100-3/EUR-5-7
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-101-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-100-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Bahmanī
dc.subject	Bahmanī
dc.subject	Deccan
dc.subject	Deccan
dc.subject	Funerary architecture
dc.subject	Funerary architecture
dc.subject	Ni’matullāhiyya
dc.subject	Ni’matullāhiyya
dc.subject	Religious identity
dc.subject	Religious identity
dc.subject	Shi’a
dc.subject	Shi’a
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