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Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660
Author:
Fatima Quraishi
ISBN:
9789376540129
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2027
Pages:
336 with 103 color plates, 7 figures, and 6 maps
Size:
16 x 24 x 2 cm
Weight:
921 grams
Price:
INR
4995.00
About the Book
The historic role of funerary architecture in South Asia.
Established in the late fourteenth century in what is now Sindh Province, Pakistan, the Maklī necropolis grew over three centuries to a site of more than seventy monumental tombs and mosques, and hundreds, if not thousands, of graves. Maklī’s distinctive architecture sheds light on the intersection of transregional artistic styles through its accretional building practices by generations of craftspeople. Over its long history, Maklī became a site layered with multiple meanings as regional elites and everyday Sufi devotees sought to be buried in the shadow of saints—and as the living visited the necropolis to enact devotions and duty.In
Palimpsests Past and Present
, Fatima Quraishi uses rarely consulted archives in Pakistan alongside close analysis of Maklī’s built environment to understand the site as an artistic and architectural palimpsest, mutually established by elite patronage and humble devotions. At Maklī, the passage of time merges with changes in religion and society to reveal the vibrant lives and afterlives of tombs integral to the communal life of surrounding areas. By studying what has long been treated as an interstitial space between Central Asia and India, Quraishi speaks to wider explorations of borderlands of the premodern past.
About the Author
Fatima Quraishi
Fatima Quraishi is assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University.
Editorial Reviews
“Extensively illustrated, deeply researched, and beautifully written, this book is essential for understanding how Makli’s funerary monuments carry memory—and communities—across the centuries.”
—Kishwar Rizvi, author of
The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East
“This richly brocaded study illuminates centuries of history in a region long overshadowed (and divided) by postcolonial politics.”
—Yael Rice, author of
The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
“An impressive debut. As attentive to Sufi and Shi’i cadences as she is to the shifting ecological and political worlds of the Indus delta, Quraishi shows that landscapes of death were also spaces of community and social life.”
—Samira Sheikh, author of
Forging a Region: Sultans, Traders and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200–1500
“Maklī has cried out for scholarly attention since entering the World Heritage List in 1981, and Quraishi gives us an authoritative, richly woven fabric of Maklī’s history.”
—Phillip B. Wagoner, coauthor of
Vijayanagara: Architectural Inventory of the Sacred Centre
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