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Lasting impressions: seals from the Islamic world

Lasting impressions: seals from the Islamic world
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ISBN 9834469691 (hbk.)
9789834469696 (hbk.)
Author Gallop, Annabel Teh
Title Lasting impressions : seals from the Islamic world / [by] Annabel Teh Gallop and Venetia Porter ; with contributions from Heba Nayel Barakat ... [et al.]
Publisher Kuala Lumpur : Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, in association with the British Library and the British Museum, 2012
Physical desc. 199 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 30 cm.
Note Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Lasting impressions: seals from the Islamic world, held at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 27 September 2012-27 January 2013.
"The exhibition is based on the British Library-British Museum travelling photographic exhibition, Lasting impressions: seals from the Islamic world, which toured the UK in 2010 and 2011" -- T.p. verso.
CBL illustrations: p. 161 (ch. 5.1): T 476, f. 2a.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.
Contents Seals from the Islamic world. The use of seals in early Islam / Venetia Porter (VP) -- Documents without seals / Annabel Teh Gallop (AG) -- Seals on documents / AG -- Qajar marriage certificates / Heba Nayel Barakat -- Neither too high nor too low: the position of the seal on a letter / AG -- Legal documents from Xinjiang / Heba Nayel Barakat -- Seals in books / AG -- Seals of Chinese Muslim calligraphers / Heba Nayel Barakat -- 'Islamic' seals of non-Muslims / AG -- Seals of women / AG -- Seal matrices. Seal stones and their properties / VP -- Early Islamic seal stones in Southeast Asia / AG -- A Persian treatise on seal engraving / Arif Naushahi -- Ottoman seal culture / AG -- Munsyi Abdullah as seal designer / AG -- Seal designers of Aceh and Kedah / AG -- Malay seal matrices / AG -- The seal designs of the Sultan of Bone / AG -- Raja Ali Haji and his seal / Jan van der Putten and AG -- Seals versus amulets / VP -- Seal impressions. Ilkhanid seals: the earliest Islamic ink seal impressions / VP -- Red ink seals of Kedah and Perlis / AG -- Wax seals / AG -- The seal of Syaikh Yusuf of Makassar / AG -- Gold seal tokens of Banjar / AG -- Lampblack seals from Southeast Asia / AG -- The great seal of Brunei / AG -- Malay origami: decorative paper seal covers / AG -- (Almost) the last Malay lampblack seal / AG -- New times, new ways of sealing / AG -- Calligraphy and inscriptions. Calligraphy on seals / VP -- Seal inscriptions / VP -- Seals of the Imams / VP -- Dates on seals and amulets / Heba Nayel Barakat, Nurul Iman Rusli, Ros Mahwati Ahmad Zakaria and Fariba Roomi -- 'His servant': seals from the Hijaz / AG -- The Mughal genealogical seal / AG -- The ninefold seal of Aceh / AG -- Malay seal inscriptions / AG -- Minangkabau seals in Negeri Sembilan / AG -- Seal collectors / AG -- Design and decoration. Seal shapes / AG -- Seals with headpieces / AG -- Petalled lotus seals from Southeast Asia / AG -- Art around seals / AG -- Pictorial brass seals from Iran / VP -- Royal animal seals from Jambi / AG -- Dhu al-faqar on Islamic seals / AG -- The 'crowned arms' of Gowa / AG -- Ship seals of the viceroys of Johor and Riau / AG -- Heraldic seals / AG.
Corporate name Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia -- Exhibitions
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 476
Seals (Numismatics) -- Islamic Empire -- Exhibitions
Seals (Numismatics) -- Islamic countries -- Exhibitions
Seals (Numismatics) -- Middle East -- Exhibitions
Amulets (Islam) -- Exhibitions
Subject headings Islamic seals
Added name(s) Porter, Venetia
Barakat, Heba Nayel
Added name(s) - Corporate Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
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