Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity

Nazanin Hedayat Munroe is a textile and fashion historian specializing in luxury silks from the early modern Persianate world. She is currently Director of Textile Technology and Assistant Professor in Business and Technology of Fashion, NYC College of Technology - City University of New York.

• Acknowledgments, List of Illustrations, Notes on Transliteration, Introduction, Material Culture and Mysticism in the Persianate World, PART I, Chapter One, Silks, Signatures and Self-fashioning, Khamsa Narrative Silks in Scholarship, The Famous Naqshband: Unrivalled in the Art of Textile Design, Craftsmen and Consumers, Self-Fashioning in the Early Modern Persianate World, Chapter Two, Dressed as King, Lover and Beloved: Khusrau and Shirin, Lovers from Nizami's >Khamsa, The Romantic Tragedy of Nizami's 'Khusrau and Shirin', Khusrau and Shirin in Paintings and Safavid Silks, The Gaze and the Body: States of Dress and Undress, Chapter Three, Weaving Stories, Weaving Self: Layla and Majnun as Sufi Icons, The Mystical Love Story of Nizami's 'Layla and Majnun', Layla and Majnun in Paintings and Safavid silks, The >Khamsa of Amir Khusrau, Text and Textile in Sufi Poetry, PART II, Chapter Four, The Divine Cloak of Majesty: Material Culture in Sufi Practice, Garments as Gifts of Blessing, Piety and Power, Chivalry, Spirituality, and Materiality in Sufism, Khirqa: The Cloak of Spiritual Poverty, Khamsa Silk as >Khirqa? Figural Silks in Islamic Literary Sources, Enrobed: Khil'at

The Winner of the 2024 R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award ''...book brings the highest standard of research and scholarship to a topic of significance to the field of global textile studies and presents its material in a manner that is a accesible and engaging for the public as well for textile scholars.'' - Textile Society of America, November 2024 ''Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity brings a new perspective on links between textiles, painting, religion, and literature. […] Hedayat Munroe builds an excellent historical, religious, and artistic picture for the milieu of the material.''- Amanda Phillips, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual , Vol.2, 2024