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The rise of Islamic calligraphy
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0863566731 (hbk.)
9780863566738 (hbk.)
Author
George, Alain 1979-
Title
The rise of Islamic calligraphy / [by] Alain George
Publisher
London ; Berkeley, CA ; Beirut : Saqi, 2010
Physical desc.
236 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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CBL illustrations: p. 120 (Is 1417, fols. 33b-34a); p. 126 (Ar 4000, fols. 23b-24a); p. [128]-[129] (Is 1431, fols. 9b-10a); p. 130 (Is 1431, f. 10a & f. 283b); p. 131: bottom (Is 1431, f. 284b); p. [133]: all in right column (Is 1431, fols. 384a, 276a, 10a, 146a, 243b).
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Contents
Looking for the origins. The Arabic script before Islam -- The earliest Islamic documents -- The earliest manuscripts of the Qurʾan -- The scribal world of late antiquity -- Codex versus scroll -- Format, ruling, quires and decoration -- Pens, strokes and dots -- Christian scribes of the Qurʾan -- The birth of Kufic. A novel codification -- The inscriptions on the Dome of the Rock -- The milestones of ʿAbd al-Malik -- The epigraphic coinage -- Umayyad manuscripts of the Qurʾan -- Economy and ideology in early Kufic -- On calligraphy and proportion. The architecture of the page -- Proportion in Plato's Timaeus -- Artisans and intellectual circles in early Islamic times -- Calligraphy as music: the tenth century -- Towards the codification of cursive. The new style -- The growth of cursive -- The role of Ibn Muqla -- Calligraphy and the breakdown of the empire -- Economy, orthography and legibility.
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Koran
Orthography
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4000
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1417
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1431
Islamic calligraphy
Calligraphy, Arabic
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