TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Kane,Bernard
AU  - Peacock,A.C.S.
AU  - Muehlhaeusler,Mark
TI  - Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
T2  - Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art Series
SN  - 9781474489461
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Visual communication-History-To 1500
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Islamic inscriptions-History-To 1500
KW  - Islamic civilization-Sources
KW  - Civilization, Medieval-Sources
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; 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 Malikshāh 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 Muḥammad in Architectural Inscriptions -- Chapter 7 Barakat Muḥammad: 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-Qurʼanic Epigraphic Programme in the Buildings of Shaykhū al-ʿUmarī al-Nāṣirī -- 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 Ṭahmāsb -- 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
N2  - Showcases the best recent research on epigraphy across the medieval Islamic world
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