Qajar Women: Images of Women in 19th-Century Iran

Silvana Editorale

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$300.00
UPC:
9788836635252
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
9/26/2017
Author:
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya;Nur Sobers-Khan;Amlie Couvrat-Desvergnes;Stefan Masarovic
Language:
english,french

Product Overview

Qajar Women explores the varied images of women in 19th-century Iran through artworks belonging to the permanent collection of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.

Essays by international experts trace changes in the ideals of female beauty in modern Islamic art and highlight the diversity of womens representations, using the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925, as a chronological frame.