Archaeological and Artistic Analysis of Shahrokhi's Merajnameh Miniatures
Subject Areas : Archaeology
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Keywords: Merajnameh, Muhammad ( PBUH), miniatures , ascension, Taymurid.,
Abstract :
The illustrated manuscripts of Iran in the Islamic period have various cultural, archaeological, social, historical, religious, artistic and other information, And this information is important for historians, archaeologists and scientists of various sciences. kings counted as the main supporters of creating illustrated manuscripts with different topics such as heroic, religious in the Taymurid period. So many books such as Khavaran Nameh, Shahnameh, Khamseh, rewritten and illustrated by same kings in the Taymurid period. Generally, Shahrokhi’s Merajnameh is one of the most important illustrated manuscripts in the Taymuird period and this book has almost 58 miniatures with illustrated pages that written in Turkish,Uighur and Arabic languages. Shahrokhi's Merajnameh has valuable miniatures that indicate us cultural and artistic and historical information about the Taymuird period. One of the main purpose of this article is to introduce the illustrated manuscripts in Merajnameh as one of the study sources in the field of history, art and archeology in the Taymurid period. Archaeological and artistic analysis of the miniatures of this book is another goal of this research.In this research, with fieldwork and library studies, a number of illustrated miniatures of Merajnameh have been studied with descriptive and analytical methods and sometimes with a comparative approach.The result of this research shows the importance of Merajnameh miniatures in the cultural reconstruction of the Taymurid period in Iran.
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