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The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad mosaic inscriptions

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0748695605 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780748695607 (hbk.)
Author	Milwright, Marcus
Title	The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad mosaic inscriptions / Marcus Milwright
Publisher	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016
Physical desc.	xiv, 298 p., [2] folded leaves ; ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Series	Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-287) and indexes.
Contents	Introduction -- The setting of the Dome of the Rock -- Initial description of the mosaic inscriptions -- Mosaic scripts in late antiquity -- Visual sources for the mosaic script of the Dome of the Rock -- Focus on details -- Proposing a sequence -- Symbolic dimensions of inscriptions in late antiquity and early Islam -- The inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock in their historical context -- Conclusion.
Corporate name	Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)
Subject	Islamic inscriptions -- Jerusalem
	Islamic mosaics -- Jerusalem
	Architecture, Umayyad -- Jerusalem
	Art, Umayyad -- Jerusalem
	Middle East -- Jerusalem

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