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How to read Islamic calligraphy

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1588396304 (softcover)
ISBN	9781588396303 (softcover)
Author	Ekhtiar, Maryam
Title	How to read Islamic calligraphy / Maryam D. Ekhtiar
Publisher	New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
Physical desc.	155 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm.
Note	Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-152) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The Arabic script: origins, development, and variations -- Embellishing the word of God: Arabic and the art of the Qur'an -- Ornament and abstraction: the triumph of form over content.
Corporate name	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Department of Islamic Art -- Catalogs
Subject	Islamic calligraphy -- Themes, motives
Added name(s) - Corporate	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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