Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World
Description:... Introduction -- Part A: Sites. 1.Inscribing the square : the inscriptions on the Maidān-i Shāh in Iṣfahān /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.The Qur'anic inscriptions of the minaret of Jām, Afghanistan /Ulrike-Christiane Lintz --Part B: 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 Kūfī script during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II /İrvin 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 Qājār epigraphs : case studies from Shīrāz and Iṣfahān /Bavand Behpoor --Part C: 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 Quṭb Minār, 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-Nabawī) under the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid /Hilal Kazan ; 15.Fāṭimid Kūfī epigraphy on the Gates of Cairo : between royal patronage and civil utility /Bahia Shehab --Part D: Artists. 16.An art ambassador : the inscriptions of ʻAlī Riżā ʻAbbāsī /Saeid Khaghani ; 17.Mustafa Râkim Efendi's architectural calligraphy /Süleyman Berk ; 18.Yesârîzâde Mustafa İzzet Efendi and his contributions to Ottoman architectural calligraphy /M. Uǧur Derman ; 19.The visual interpretation of Nasta'līq in architecture : Mīrzā Gholām Reżā's monumental inscriptions for the Sepahsālār Mosque in Tehran /Sina Goudarzi --Part E: Regional. 20.Ma'qilī inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin : stylistic and epigraphic contexts /Tehnyat Majeed ; 21.The composition of Kūfī inscriptions in transitional and early-Islamic architecture of North Khurāsān /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 Tüfekçioğlu --Part F: 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.
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