Keeping Abreast of Foreign Fashions: Rationalizing RÅ«s Brooches in a Sixteenth-Century Persian Version of Ibn Faá¸lÄnâs RisÄla
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Studies of Ibn Faá¸lÄnâs tenth-century RisÄla, a travel account detailing his journey from Baghdad to the banks of the Volga River, typically rely on thirteenth-century witnesses to the original travelogue. These are our earliest and fullest versions of the text, but are not the only extant records of Ibn Faá¸lÄnâs journey. Due to both its late dating and its spurious interpolations, the partial preservation of the RisÄla in AmÄ«n RÄzÄ«âs sixteenth-century geographical work, Haft IqlÄ«m, is frequently overlooked. This article reconsiders attitudes to AmÄ«n RÄzÄ«âs work, focusing on his claim that RÅ«s women used oval brooches to restrict the growth of their breasts. Approaching this claim using classical, Arabic, and Persian analogues of breast restriction, cauterization, Amazons, and Islands of Women, and tracing geographical and literary dissemination, AmÄ«n RÄzÄ«âs ârationalizationâ of RÅ«s womenâs costume will be reframed as the plausible conclusion of a number of robust and longstanding geographical traditions.
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Keeping Abreast of Foreign Fashions: Rationalizing RÅ«s Brooches in a Sixteenth-Century Persian Version of Ibn Faá¸lÄnâs RisÄla
In: Medieval EncountersSearch for other papers by Tonicha Mae Upham in
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Abstract
Studies of Ibn Faá¸lÄnâs tenth-century RisÄla, a travel account detailing his journey from Baghdad to the banks of the Volga River, typically rely on thirteenth-century witnesses to the original travelogue. These are our earliest and fullest versions of the text, but are not the only extant records of Ibn Faá¸lÄnâs journey. Due to both its late dating and its spurious interpolations, the partial preservation of the RisÄla in AmÄ«n RÄzÄ«âs sixteenth-century geographical work, Haft IqlÄ«m, is frequently overlooked. This article reconsiders attitudes to AmÄ«n RÄzÄ«âs work, focusing on his claim that RÅ«s women used oval brooches to restrict the growth of their breasts. Approaching this claim using classical, Arabic, and Persian analogues of breast restriction, cauterization, Amazons, and Islands of Women, and tracing geographical and literary dissemination, AmÄ«n RÄzÄ«âs ârationalizationâ of RÅ«s womenâs costume will be reframed as the plausible conclusion of a number of robust and longstanding geographical traditions.
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| Abstract Views | 817 | 144 | 11 |
| Full Text Views | 78 | 17 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 161 | 37 | 0 |
