When Poetry Came Alive on Tiles: Persian Poems on 13th-14thCentury Kashan Tiles

The new Muslim Turkish states that emerged with Turks' entry into the Islamic field brought their culture to Islamic civilization. Turks reflected their own Islamic perceptions and lives onto the works they produced in the architectural, literary, cultural, and artistic fields. The reason why P...

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Main Author: Serap Denizmen
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Language:Arabic
Published: Istanbul University Press 2023-04-01
Series:Şarkiyat Mecmuası
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description The new Muslim Turkish states that emerged with Turks' entry into the Islamic field brought their culture to Islamic civilization. Turks reflected their own Islamic perceptions and lives onto the works they produced in the architectural, literary, cultural, and artistic fields. The reason why Persian poetry evolved and moved to a higher point during the Great Seljuk State was that the sultans and high-level bureaucrats were patrons of poems and poets. In the same period, the firing techniques used in tile art were further developed by the masters of the city of Kashan, and the tile products the city produced began to be called kāshī. In the 13th and 14th centuries, quatrains adorned these tiles, which were described as luxury consumer goods of the period. This article examines this period of time where poetry and tile work occured hand in hand and the importance of the city of Kashan as a tile production center and presents the place and development of quatrains that began developing in the Great Seljuk period with regard to the sultans and society. The article then examines the poems found on various ceramic products belonging to the 13th and 14th centuries, presents their translations, and shares pictures of these tiles in order to identify the poets and form an opinion on the poetry and aesthetic tastes of period.
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