Item Number: 126024 Title: Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World Author: Gharipour, Mohammad ; Irvin Cemil Schick Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780748669226 Description: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 26cm., hardcover, 592pp., 401 color illus. Summary: A: Introduction; B: Sites; 1. Inscribing the Square: The Inscriptions on the Maidan-i Shah in Isfahan, Sheila S. Blair; 2. Speaking Architecture: Poetry and Aesthetics in the Alhambra Palace, José Miguel Puerta Vílchez; 3. The Arabic Calligraphy on the Ceiling of the Twelfth-Century Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily: Function and Identity, Hashim Al-Tawil; 4. Wall-Less Walls: The Calligraphy at the Hadži Sinanova Tekija in Sarajevo, Snježana Buzov; 5. Survey – The Qur’anic Inscriptions Monument From Jam, Afghanistan, Ulrike-Christiane Lintz; C: Style vs. Content; 6. Multi-Sensorial Messages of the Divine and the Personal: Qur’an Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosques in Istanbul, Nina Ergin; 7. The Revival of Kufi Script During the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, Irvin Cemil Schick; 8. Calligraphy in Chinese Mosques: At the Intersection of Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy, Barbara Stöcker-Parnian; 9. Qur’anic Verses on Works of Architecture: The Ottoman Case, Murat Sülün; 10. Reading Qajar Epigraphs: Case Studies from Shiraz and Isfahan, Bavand Behpoor; D: Patronage; 11. ‘The Pen Has Extolled Her Virtues’: Gender and Power within the Visual Legacy of Shajar al-Durr in Cairo, Caroline Olivia M. Wolf; 12. Sovereign Epigraphy in Location: Politics, Devotion and Legitimisation around the Qutb Minar, Delhi, Johanna Blayac; 13. Archival Evidence on the Commissioning of Architectural Calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire, Talip Mert; 14. On the Renewal of the Calligraphy at the Mosque of the Prophet (al-Masjid al-Nabawi) under the Reign of Sultan Abdülmecid, Hilal Kazan; 15. Fatimid Kufi Epigraphy on the Gates of Cairo: Between Royal Patronage and Civil Utility, Bahia Shehab; E: Artists; 16. An Art Ambassador: The Inscriptions of ‘Ali Reza ‘Abbasi, Saeid Khaghani; 17. Mustafa Râkim Efendi’s Architectural Calligraphy, Süleyman Berk; 18. Yesârîzâde Mustafa Izzet Efendi and his Contributions to Ottoman Architectural Calligraphy, M. Ugur Derman; 19. The Visual Interpretation of Nasta‘liq in Architecture: Mirza Gholam Reza’s Monumental Inscriptions for the Sepahsalar Mosque in Tehran, Sina Goudarzi; F: Regional; 20. Ma‘qili Inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin: Stylistic and Epigraphic Contexts, Tehnyat Majeed; 21. The Composition of Kufi Inscriptions in Transitional and Early-Islamic Architecture of North Khurasan, Nasiba S. Baimatowa; 22. Space and Calligraphy in the Chinese Mosque, Sadiq Javer; 23. Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo, Bernard O’Kane; 24. Allegiance, Praise and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia as Architectural Guides, Patricia Blessing; 25. Symmetrical Compositions in Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Architectural Inscriptions in Asia Minor, Abdülhamit Tüfekçioglu; G: Modernity; 26. Writing Less, Saying More: Calligraphy and Modernisation in the Last Ottoman Century, Edhem Eldem; 27. The Absence and Emergence of Calligraphy in Najd: Calligraphy as a Modernist Component of Architecture in Riyadh, Sumayah Al-Solaiman; 28. Cairo to Canton and Back: Tradition in the Islamic Vernacular, Ann Shafer. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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