The historical relationship between the shawls of Gurun and Iran

Imer Z.

ASIAN FOLKLORE STUDIES, cilt.64, sa.2, ss.261-277, 2005 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 64 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2005
  • Dergi Adı: ASIAN FOLKLORE STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, ATLA Religion Database, Humanities Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Religion and Philosophy Collection
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.261-277
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

About a thousand years ago, Turks settled in Anatolia. Along the way, while migrating from Central Asia, they established a common concept of culture and arts in every country they claimed to be under Turkish sovereignty. For this reason it is possible to find the same motifs in the arts of Anatolia and Central Asia. When Turkmen (Oguzlar) who had once settled in Turkestan (Horasan and Kirman areas) moved westward, they formed the foundation of the relationship between Iran and Anatolia. This is why much artwork found along this migration route has common Turkish and Iranian features. An example in point are the shawls woven in Sivas-Gurun in Turkey in the nineteenth century that share common features with shawls made in the Kesan and Kirman regions of Iran from the same period.