Edited with text by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Nur Sobers-Khan. Text by Amélie Couvrat-Desvergnes, Stefan Masarovic.
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 women’s representations, using the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925, as a chronological frame.
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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.
Published by Silvana Editoriale. Edited with text by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Nur Sobers-Khan. Text by Amélie Couvrat-Desvergnes, Stefan Masarovic.
Essays by international experts trace changes in the ideals of female beauty in modern Islamic art and highlight the diversity of women’s representations, using the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925, as a chronological frame.