Falnama

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Falnama

Rachel Parikh

Related Terms:

  • Al-Buraq (the Prophet Muhammad’s human-headed flying steed)

Related Khamseen Videos:

Marika Sardar, “The Gwalior Qur’an,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.

References:

Bağcı, Serpil. “Images for Foretelling: Two Topkapi Falnamas.” In Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands, edited by Louise Harlow, 99–130. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Farhad, Massumeh and Serpil Bağcı. Falnama: Book of Omens. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2009. 

Gruber, Christiane. “The ‘Restored’ Shi‘i Mushaf as Divine Guide?: The Practice of Fal-i Qur’an in the Safavid Period,” The Journal of Qur’anic Studies 13/2 (2011): 29–55.

Leach, Linda. “Das Falname – ein islamisches Omenbuch.” In Orakel: Der Blick in die Zukunft, edited by Axel Langer et al, 208–211. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 1999. 

Parikh, Rachel. “Faith and Fate: The Khalili Falnama and Shi‘i Identity in Golconda.” In Iran and the Deccan: Persian Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, edited by Keelan Overton, 227–255. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.

Parikh, Rachel. The Khalili Falnamah. London: The Nour Foundation and Azimuth Publications, 2022.

Citation:

Rachel Parikh, “Falnama” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 17 December 2024.

Rachel Parikh is the Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. She also serves as the Deputy Director for the Dunhuang Foundation. Parikh specializes in South Asian and Islamic painting as well as arms and armor. Prior to her current positions, Parikh worked at the Worcester Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Parikh has lectured nationally and internationally, as well as published extensively. Her first book, The Khalili Falnamah, was published in 2022. You can follow her arms and armor Instagram account.