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Khorshid Khanom
A Study in the Origin and Development of the Shir-o Khorshid Motif
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Originally, Khorshid Khanom or "Sun Lady", was the symbol of the Mother Goddess, but later she became the goddess of fertility and water, and the protector of her believers. Since Achaemenid times and thereafter, she was the personification of Anahita, who was immaculate and fiery, and associated with fertility, water, and Venus.
Despite Khorshid Khanom’s ubiquitous presence in Iran and beyond, she seems to be totally absent from primary sources, secondary historical monographs, encyclopedias, and even from folklore literature, except for lullabies and children's ditties.
Khorshid Khanom: A Study in the Origin and Development of the Shir-o Khorshid Motif by renowned scholar Willem Floor in collaboration with art historian Forough Sajadi, fills this lacuna. It draws from folklore, literary and artistic sources to explore the inspirational source of the motif. It identifies the first surviving artworks depicting a human-faced sun, and discusses how this motif developed and was used over the centuries, not only to represent fertility, but also as the symbol of royal power and charisma from the pre-Islamic period down to the twentieth century.
Willem Floor studied development economics and non-western sociology, as well as Persian, Arabic and Islamology from 1963-67 at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands). He received his doctoral degree from the University of Leiden in 1971. Since 1983, Dr. Floor was employed by the World Bank as an energy specialist, however, after his retirement in 2002, he has dedicated his time to the study of the social and political history of Iran, and has published extensively throughout this time.
,Forough Sajadi is an art historian specializing in Islamic art and, in particular Persian paintings. She earned her doctoral degree in Art History from the University of Warsaw. Since 2021 her research has focused on Persian miniatures in Dutch collections. She is currently working as a Scaliger Fellow in the Special Collections Department of Leiden University Libraries.
- ISBN-13
- 9781949445718
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers
- Imprint
- Mage Publishers Inc
- Publication date
- 1 January 2024
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 202
- Dimensions
- 240 x 160 mm
- Illustrations
- b/w illustrations
- Language
- English
