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Calligraphy and architecture in the Muslim world
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0748669221 (hbk.)
9780748669226 (hbk.)
Title
Calligraphy and architecture in the Muslim world / edited by Mohammad Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013
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xii, 532 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), maps, plans ; 31 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Part A: Sites. Inscribing the square: the inscriptions on the Maidan-i Shah in Isfahan / Sheila S. Blair -- Speaking architecture: poetry and aesthetics in the Alhambra Palace / Jose Miguel Puerta Vilchez -- The Arabic calligraphy on the ceiling of the twelfth-century Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily: function and identity / Hashim Al-Tawil -- Wall-less walls: the calligraphy at the Hadzi Sinanova Tekija in Sarajevo / Snjezana Buzov -- The Qur'anic inscriptions monument from Jam in Afghanistan / Ulrike-Christiane Lintz -- Part B: Style vs. content. Multi-sensorial messages of the divine and the personal: Qur'an inscriptions and recitation in sixteenth-century Ottoman mosques in Istanbul / Nina Ergin -- The revival of kufi script during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II / Irvin Cemil Schick -- Calligraphy in Chinese mosques: at the intersection of Arabic and Chinese calligraphy / Barbara Stocker-Parnian -- Qur'anic verses on works of architecture: the Ottoman case / Murat Sulun -- Reading Qajar epigraphs: case studies from Shiraz and Isfahan / Bavand Behpoor -- Part C: Patronage. 'The pen has extolled her virtues': gender and power within the visual legacy of Shajar al-Durr in Cairo / Caroline Olivia M. Wolf -- Sovereign epigraphy in location: politics, devotion and legitimisation around the Qutb Minar, Delhi / Johanna Blayac -- Archival evidence on the commissioning of architectural calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire / Talip Mert -- On the renewal of the calligraphy at the Mosque of the Prophet (al-Masjid al-Nabawi) under the reign of Sultan Abdulmecid / Hilal Kazan -- Fasimid kufi epigraphy on the gates of Cairo: between royal patronage and civil utility / Bahia Shehab -- Part D: Artists. An art ambassador: the inscriptions of 'Ali Reza' Abbasi / Saeid Khaghani -- Mustafa Rakim Efendi's architectural calligraphy / Suleyman Berk -- Yesarizade Mustafa Izzet Efendi and his contributions to Ottoman architectural calligraphy / Ugur Derman -- The visual interpretation of Nasta'liq in architecture: Mirza Gholam Reza's monumental inscriptions for the Sepahsalar mosque in Tehran / Sina Goudarzi -- Part E: Regional. Ma'qili inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin: stylistic and epigraphic contexts / Tehnyat Majeed -- The composition of kufi inscriptions in transitional and early-Islamic architecture of North Khurasan / Nasiba S. Baimatowa -- Space and calligraphy in the Chinese mosque / Sadiq Javer -- Medium and message in the monumental epigraphy of medieval Cairo / Bernard O'Kane -- Allegiance, praise and space: monumental inscriptions in thirteenth-century Anatolia as architectural guides / Patricia Blessing -- Symmetrical compositions in pre-Ottoman and Ottoman architectural inscriptions in Asia Minor / Abdulhamit Tufekcioglu -- Part F: Modernity. Writing less, saying more: calligraphy and modernisation in the last Ottoman century / Edhem Eldem -- The absence and emergence of calligraphy in Najd: calligraphy as a modernist component of architecture in Riyadh / Sumayah Al-Solaiman -- Cairo to Canton and back: tradition in the Islamic vernacular / Ann Shafer.
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Islamic calligraphy
Islamic architecture
Islamic decoration and ornament
Architectural inscriptions
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
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Schick, İrvin C. (İrvin Cemil)
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