| ISBN |
9780300228243 (hbk.) |
| 0300228244 (hbk.) |
| Meeting Name |
Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art (6th : 2015 : Dawhah, Qatar) |
| Title |
By the pen and what they write : writing in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom |
| Publisher |
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2017 |
| Physical desc. |
xi, 305 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Note |
"In association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar |
| Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, 7-9 November 2015, Doha, Qatar. |
| CBL illustrations: p. 119, fig. 91 (Is 1431, f. 9b); p. 132, fig. 101 (image of several examples of Islamic books: Is 1599, Is 1463, Ar 5459, Per 208, Per 133, Is 1417a-c, T 485, Per 289); p. 134, fig. 104 (Is 1404); p. 139, fig. 114 (Is x6); p. 140, fig. 115 (W 139, f. 29v); p. 141, fig. 116a and b (T 446); p. 145, fig. 122 (Per 196, f. 135b); p. 209, fig. 174 (Ar 3551/2, f. 24b); p. [211], fig. 178 (T 439, f. 9a). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-378) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ten (or eleven) years of the Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom -- Writing as signifier of Islam / Sheila Blair -- The birth of Arabic in stone / Robert Hoyland -- Scripture, revelation, and writing: the Qur'an's epistemic recast of Arabian late antiquity / Angelika Neuwirth -- Baghdad as a center of learning and book production / Hugh Kennedy -- How paper changed the literary and visual culture of the Islamic lands / Jonathan Bloom -- Reading with conservators: the language of book archaeology / Kristine Rose Beers -- The spread of Islamic inscriptions in East and Southeast Asia / Ludvik Kalus -- Reading between the lines: word and image in sixteenth-century Iran / Massumeh Farhad -- Chained: orality, authority, and history / Dana Sajdi -- Arabic typography and the shaping of a modern print culture / Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès -- The triumph of the word / Heba Nayel Barakat. |
| Corporate name |
Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar) |
| Meeting |
Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 3551 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is x6 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1404 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1431 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 196 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 439 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 446 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- W 139 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Themes, motives -- Congresses |
| Islamic calligraphy -- Congresses |
| Islamic calligraphy in art -- Congresses |
| Islamic bookbinding -- Congresses |
| Islamic decoration and ornament -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Blair, Sheila ed. |
| Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar) |
| Qatar Foundation |
