| ISBN |
9781944466589 (softcover) |
| Title |
The word illuminated : form and function of Qur'anic manuscripts from the seventh to seventeenth centuries / edited by Simon Rettig and Sana Mirza |
| Publisher |
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2023 |
| Physical desc. |
ix, 218 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Smithsonian contribution to knowledge |
| Note |
Selected conference papers from a symposium held 1-3 December 2016 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, in conjunction with an exhibition held there: 'The art of the Qur'an: treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts'. |
| CB illustrations: p. 22, fig. 5 (Is 1404, f. 157v); p. 34, fig. 6 (Is 1434, f. 4v); p. 57, fig. 1 (Is 1466, f. 1r); p. 57, fig. 2 (Is 1466, f. 330v); p. 58, fig.3 (Is 1466, f. 328v); p. 130, fig. 6 (Is 1479, ff. 1v-2r); p. 147-160 (12 images from Is 1558). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Massumeh Farhad -- Note to the reader -- Introduction: Current perspectives on Qur'anic manuscripts / Simon Rettig and Sana Mirza -- Astar al-awwalin: the Qur'anic handwritten tradition and its beginnings / François Déroche -- Ghaznavid imperial Qur'an manuscripts: the shaping of a local style / Alya Karame -- Illuminated Qur'an manuscripts of late medieval Rum (thirteenth to fourteenth centuries) / Cailah Jackson -- A luxury market? Yaqut al-Musta'simi's Qur'ans / Nourane Ben Azzouna -- Sultan Öljeitü's Baghdad Qur'an: a life history / Sheila S. Blair -- Mamluk Qur'ans: splendour and opulence of the Islamic book / Alison Aplin Ohta -- A sixteenth-century Shiraz masterpiece: Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an / Elaine Wright -- The Qur'anic soundscape of Mimar Sinan's mosques: a survey of recitation programs and the unusual case of the Hadim Ibrahim Paşa mosque at Silivrikapi / Nina Macaraig -- The rise of the en'am: manuscripts of selections of suras in the early sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire / Simon Rettig. |
| Corporate name |
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) -- Congresses |
| Subject |
Qurʼan -- Manuscripts -- History |
| Qurʼan -- Illustrations |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1404 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1434 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1466 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1479 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1558 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- History |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- History |
| Islam -- Manuscripts -- History |
| Added name(s) |
Rettig, Simon editor |
| Mirza, Sana editor |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Smithsonian Institution |
