Analysis and Assessment of the Visual Elements of A Prayer Rug from Safavid Period by Gerard Genette's Theory

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GHANI AFSANEH; Mehrabi Fatemeh

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Journal: NEGAREH Year:2020 | Volume:14 | Issue:52 Page(s): 69-83

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Analysis and Assessment of the Visual Elements of A Prayer Rug from Safavid Period by Gerard Genette's Theory

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GHANI AFSANEH | Mehrabi Fatemeh | Issue Writer Certificate

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Safavid PeriodQ1

IntertextualityQ1

Gerard GenetteQ1

Mihrab RugQ1

Prayer RugQ1

Abstract

Prayer Rugs are a large and important collection of Persian rugs that were produced in theSafavid era and attracted society’ s interest. Since the Prayer Rug has been seriously consideredand reproduced at some point in history, and the elements and designs used in these rugs werepreviously available in other Iranian rugs, it is necessary to be studied analytically. In thesetypes of carpets which are categorized in different types, there are different artistic texts fromdifferent types of Persian carpets that come together to create a unified text known as the prayerrug. These carpets have different names depending on the designs and the texts which havebeen used in them, each of which testifies to the importance of a particular text or set of textsin the design of these special carpets. When faced with a literary or artistic work, a diversecollection of literary, artistic texts can be distinguished, and it is possible to reach and receive hidden meaning through reading and understanding that collection and the relationships among its members. It is clear that through such an analysis, one can be guided by how a set of preexisting motives in a new structure creates content and meaning that is met with the generalfavour of the place of their creation. Combining a set of texts and achieving a unified text is aprocess that is and has always been done by the human mind to create new texts. The study ofhow meaning is formed in texts through the coexistence of earlier texts is possible in the contextof various methods of intertextual criticism. One of the methods, which provides understandingof the hidden meaning in a text based on a set of constituent pre-texts and the relationshipsbetween them, is the Gé rard Genette’ s Intertextuality theory. In this research, which aimed tostudy the texts of a Safavid Prayer Rug as well as their composition and relationship to formationof hidden meaning of the carpet, Gé rard Genette, s method showed its ability to reach the hiddenmeaning of the work. The main question that helped this research achieve its purpose is howintertextual relationships were used in shaping the meaning of the rug studied in this article. This research was a descriptive and analytical study based on Gé rard Genette’ s Intertextuality Theory and its information was gathered through library research and citation of primary sources. The data analysis of this study was performed using Gé rard Genette’ s Intertextuality theory and its trend was that after identifying the constituents of effect, the mechanism of their effect on shaping the final text was determined. The results of this study indicate that in the design of this rug, pre-texts have been expressed in two types: explicit and implicit. Since this work has an advertising function for Islam and Shi, a religion, it must, therefore, take an action that best represents its function. The way of presentation of pre-texts in this work attests to the fact that the artist has created both the formal and the content-related sections. In the formal section, he explicitly provided texts that are in harmony with religion and advertising, but in the contentrelated section, he implicitly extracts texts with dual pre-texts from both ancient and Islamic Iranian cultures and attempts to present them in a single format to show the compatibility of these two cultures. The way of presentation of these pre-texts, as mentioned, is in the form of citing and referencing. Since the basic premise of any promotional action is based on a completely explicit and verbal form, inscriptions have been quoted for this purpose, as Genette himself introduces this form in the most explicit and literal form of the relationship between the two texts, and again in the context of the more important source citation. That is, it is evident that the artist is referring to texts with dual pre-texts to confront the audience with the reference of the texts, thereby leading to thinking and ultimately adopting the implicit form of bringing texts into both ancient and modern Iranian systems. Islam is meaningful and this research seeks to make the audience aware of the compatibility of these two cultures.

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GHANI, AFSANEH, & Mehrabi, Fatemeh. (2020). Analysis and Assessment of the Visual Elements of A Prayer Rug from Safavid Period by Gerard Genette's Theory. NEGAREH, 14(52 ), 69-83. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/376755/en

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GHANI AFSANEH, Mehrabi Fatemeh. Analysis and Assessment of the Visual Elements of A Prayer Rug from Safavid Period by Gerard Genette's Theory. NEGAREH[Internet]. 2020;14(52 ):69-83. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/376755/en

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AFSANEH GHANI, and Fatemeh Mehrabi, “Analysis and Assessment of the Visual Elements of A Prayer Rug from Safavid Period by Gerard Genette's Theory,” NEGAREH, vol. 14, no. 52 , pp. 69–83, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/376755/en

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