Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World

Name: Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
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Bernard O'Kane(Herausgeber*in)

Edinburgh University Press

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Erschienen am 30. April 2023

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
The Contributors
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I Inscriptions and Royal Power
Chapter 2 The Fatimid Public Text Revisited
Chapter 3 Micro and Macro Power Projection in the Medieval Islamic World: The Architectural and Numismatic Epigraphic Evidence
Chapter 4 The Monumental Inscriptions of the Great Seljuqs Malikshah and Tutush: Observations on Texts, Protocols and Writing Styles
Chapter 5 New Epigraphic Data from a Ghurid Monument at Chisht-i Sharif: Expressing Power and Piety in Sixth/Twelfth-Century Afghanistan
Part II Inscriptions and Piety
Chapter 6 Stars and Symmetry: The Name of the Prophet Mu?ammad in Architectural Inscriptions
Chapter 7 Barakat Mu?ammad: Notes on Square Kufic Epigraphy in the History of Morocco
Chapter 8 Islamic Supplications in the Funerary Architecture of Medieval Castile
Chapter 9 The Shaykh and the Amir: Reflections on the non-Qur?anic Epigraphic Programme in the Buildings of Shaykhu al-?Umari al-Na?iri
Part III Inscriptions, History and Society
Chapter 10 Tombstones from Aswan in the British Museum
Chapter 11 Marwanid Inscriptions
Chapter 12 The Rise of New Epigraphic Languages in the Medieval Islamic East: The Interplay of Persian, Turkish and Arabic on Inscriptions
Chapter 13 Inscriptions from the Golden Horde Period and the Crimean Khanate in Crimea: A Body of Hitherto Neglected Material within the Study of the Inscriptions of Islamic Lands
Part IV Inscribed Objects
Chapter 14 The Epigraphic Samarra Horizon: Blue-on-White Ceramics
Chapter 15 Art with Poetry: Inscriptions on Mamluk Metalwork
Chapter 16 'The Calligrapher is an Ape!' Arabic Epigrams on Pen Boxes (Sixth/Twelfth-Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)
Chapter 17 Between the Artist and the Patron: Painted Inscriptions of the Khamsa of Shah ?ahmasb
Part V Epigraphic Style and Function
Chapter 18 The Influence of Aesthetics on Orthographic Decisions in the Early Islamic Graffiti of Wadi al-Khirqa, Northern Hijaz
Chapter 19 The Here and the Hereafter: Rounded and Angular Inscriptions in Medieval Syria, Anatolia and the Jazira
Chapter 20 Luted Letters: The Relief Inscriptions on Kashan Lustre Mihrabs
Chapter 21 Carved Letters, Designs and Ornaments: Ilkhanid Stuccos and 'Signatures' of their Craftsmen
Chapter 22 The Qutb Minar: Epigraphic Notes
Index

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