Comparative analysis of Ghareeb-e-Mami form of two versions of Ajaib al-Makhluqat and Ghareeb al-Mujudaat Qazvini (11th and 10th century A.H. versions)

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1 PhD student in comparative and analytical history of Islamic art, Faculty of Arts, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. Email: Z.Karimi@alzahra.ac.ir

2 Professor of Art Research Department, Faculty of Arts, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran (corresponding author). Email: a.dadvar@alzahra.ac.iar

10.22111/jart.2025.48803.1057

Abstract

"Ajaibnamehs" are one of the conventional traditions of Islamic historiography rooted in the oral culture of the people and are considered a kind of visual encyclopedia. The statistical population of this article is the two copies of Ajaib al-Makhluqat and Ghareeb al-Mujudat Qazvini (11th and 10th century A.H. versions) from the Organization of Records and the National Library of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the National Library of France. This article, in line with the goals, seeks to answer these questions: 1. How many types of strange creatures are there in Qazvini's two versions of Ajaib al-Makhluqat and Ghareeb al-Mujudat (11th and 10th century AH)? 2. Aspects of commonality and formal difference (taking into account the classification in question 1, what are the two versions of the research subject? The results indicate that the types of creatures in the manuscripts under study include: humans, animals, plants, constellations, divine stories and narrations, and strange and bizarre creatures (combined). The similarities and differences between these two manuscripts in terms of color, the way of drawing elements in realism and moving away from realism, visual details, the use of imagination, the style of penmanship, the use of narrations in the text of the original manuscript, and fidelity to the text can be traced.

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Visual Art Studies
Volume 2, Issue 1
March 2025
Pages 1-19

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