Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2023
752 pages
978-1-4744-8946-1 (ISBN)
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Showcases the best recent research on epigraphy across the medieval Islamic world
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Bernard O'Kane | A. C. S. Peacock | Mark Muehlhaeusler
Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
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06/2023
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- 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
