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0821-6046-01 | Women Patrons and Images of Women in Pre-Modern Islam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Women in Pre‐Modern Islamic courts had immense political clout. They used power and means to cultivate art, and many of them became patronesses mainly of architecture.
By surveying the edifices they initiated, we'll attempt to define the peculiar characteristics of patronage of women. We'll also look into images of women in contemporary miniatures in order to determine whether power and wealth of women at these courts, influenced at all their drawn images.