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Calligraphy and architecture in the Muslim world / / edited by Mohammad Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick
Calligraphy and architecture in the Muslim world / / edited by Mohammad Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick
Autore Gharipour Mohammad
Pubbl/distr/stampa Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xii, 532 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 745.619927
Soggetto topico Islamic calligraphy
Architectural inscriptions
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Islamic architecture
Islamic decoration and ornament
ISBN 1-4744-6842-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part A: Sites -- Chapter One.Inscribing the Square: The Inscriptions on the Maidān-i Shāh in Iṣfahān -- Chapter Two. Speaking Architecture: Poetry and Aesthetics in the Alhambra Palace -- Chapter Three. The Arabic Calligraphy on the Ceiling of the Twelfth- Century Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily: Function and Identity -- Chapter Four. Wall- Less Walls: The Calligraphy at the Hadži Sinanova Tekija in Sarajevo -- Chapter Five. The Qur’anic Inscriptions of the Minaret of Jām in Afghanistan -- Part B: Style vs Content -- Chapter Six. Multi- Sensorial Messages of the Divine and the Personal: Qur’an Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth- Century Ottoman Mosques in Istanbul -- Chapter Seven. The Revival of Kūfī Script during the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II -- Chapter Eight. Calligraphy in Chinese Mosques: At the Intersection of Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy -- Chapter Nine. Qur’anic Verses on Works of Architecture: The Ottoman Case -- Chapter Ten. Reading Qājār Epigraphs: Case Studies from Shīrāz and Iṣfahān -- Part C: Patronage -- Chapter Eleven ‘The Pen Has Extolled Her Virtues’: Gender and Power within the Visual Legacy of Shajar al- Durr in Cairo -- Chapter Twelve. Sovereign Epigraphy in Location: Politics, Devotion and Legitimisation around the Quṭb Minār, Delhi -- Chapter Thirteen. Archival Evidence on the Commissioning of Architectural Calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Fourteen. On the Renewal of t he Calligraphy at the Mosque of the Prophet (al- Masjid al- Nabawī) under the Reign of Sultan Abdülmecid -- Chapter Fifteen. Fāṭimid Kūfī Epigraphy on the Gates of Cairo: Between Royal Patronage and Civil Utility -- Chapter Sixteen. An Art Ambassador: The Inscriptions of 'Alī Riżā 'Abbāsī -- Chapter Seventeen. Mustafa Râkım Efendi’s Architectural Calligraphy -- Chapter Eighteen. Yesârîzâde Mustafa Īzzet Efendi and his Contributions to Ottoman Architectural Calligraphy -- Chapter Nineteen. The Visual Interpretation of Nasta'līq in Architecture: Mīrzā Gholām Reżā’s Monumental Inscriptions for the Sepahsālār Mosque in Tehran -- Part E: Regional -- Chapter Twenty. Ma‘qilī Inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin: Stylistic and Epigraphic Contexts -- Chapter Twenty- one. The Composition of Kūfī Inscriptions in Transitional and Early- Islamic Architecture of North Khurāsān -- Chapter Twenty-two. Space and Calligraphy in the Chinese Mosque -- Chapter Twenty- three. Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo -- Chapter Twenty- four. Allegiance, Praise and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in Thirteenth- Century Anatolia as Architectural Guides -- Chapter Twenty- five. Symmetrical Compositions in Asia Minor Chapter Twenty- five Symmetrical Compositions in Pre- Ottoman and Ottoman Architectural Inscriptions in Asia Minor -- Part F: Modernity -- Chapter Twenty- six. Writing Less, Saying More: Calligraphy and Modernisation in the Last Ottoman Century -- Chapter Twenty- seven. The Absence and Emergence of Calligraphy in Najd: Calligraphy as a Modernist Component of Architecture in Riyadh -- Chapter Twenty- eight. Cairo to Canton and Back: Tradition in the Islamic Vernacular -- About the Contributors -- Index
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Gharipour Mohammad  
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Calligraphy and architecture in the Muslim world / / edited by Mohammad Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick
Calligraphy and architecture in the Muslim world / / edited by Mohammad Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick
Autore Gharipour Mohammad
Pubbl/distr/stampa Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xii, 532 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 745.619927
Soggetto topico Islamic calligraphy
Architectural inscriptions
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Islamic architecture
Islamic decoration and ornament
ISBN 1-4744-6842-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part A: Sites -- Chapter One.Inscribing the Square: The Inscriptions on the Maidān-i Shāh in Iṣfahān -- Chapter Two. Speaking Architecture: Poetry and Aesthetics in the Alhambra Palace -- Chapter Three. The Arabic Calligraphy on the Ceiling of the Twelfth- Century Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily: Function and Identity -- Chapter Four. Wall- Less Walls: The Calligraphy at the Hadži Sinanova Tekija in Sarajevo -- Chapter Five. The Qur’anic Inscriptions of the Minaret of Jām in Afghanistan -- Part B: Style vs Content -- Chapter Six. Multi- Sensorial Messages of the Divine and the Personal: Qur’an Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth- Century Ottoman Mosques in Istanbul -- Chapter Seven. The Revival of Kūfī Script during the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II -- Chapter Eight. Calligraphy in Chinese Mosques: At the Intersection of Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy -- Chapter Nine. Qur’anic Verses on Works of Architecture: The Ottoman Case -- Chapter Ten. Reading Qājār Epigraphs: Case Studies from Shīrāz and Iṣfahān -- Part C: Patronage -- Chapter Eleven ‘The Pen Has Extolled Her Virtues’: Gender and Power within the Visual Legacy of Shajar al- Durr in Cairo -- Chapter Twelve. Sovereign Epigraphy in Location: Politics, Devotion and Legitimisation around the Quṭb Minār, Delhi -- Chapter Thirteen. Archival Evidence on the Commissioning of Architectural Calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Fourteen. On the Renewal of t he Calligraphy at the Mosque of the Prophet (al- Masjid al- Nabawī) under the Reign of Sultan Abdülmecid -- Chapter Fifteen. Fāṭimid Kūfī Epigraphy on the Gates of Cairo: Between Royal Patronage and Civil Utility -- Chapter Sixteen. An Art Ambassador: The Inscriptions of 'Alī Riżā 'Abbāsī -- Chapter Seventeen. Mustafa Râkım Efendi’s Architectural Calligraphy -- Chapter Eighteen. Yesârîzâde Mustafa Īzzet Efendi and his Contributions to Ottoman Architectural Calligraphy -- Chapter Nineteen. The Visual Interpretation of Nasta'līq in Architecture: Mīrzā Gholām Reżā’s Monumental Inscriptions for the Sepahsālār Mosque in Tehran -- Part E: Regional -- Chapter Twenty. Ma‘qilī Inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin: Stylistic and Epigraphic Contexts -- Chapter Twenty- one. The Composition of Kūfī Inscriptions in Transitional and Early- Islamic Architecture of North Khurāsān -- Chapter Twenty-two. Space and Calligraphy in the Chinese Mosque -- Chapter Twenty- three. Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo -- Chapter Twenty- four. Allegiance, Praise and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in Thirteenth- Century Anatolia as Architectural Guides -- Chapter Twenty- five. Symmetrical Compositions in Asia Minor Chapter Twenty- five Symmetrical Compositions in Pre- Ottoman and Ottoman Architectural Inscriptions in Asia Minor -- Part F: Modernity -- Chapter Twenty- six. Writing Less, Saying More: Calligraphy and Modernisation in the Last Ottoman Century -- Chapter Twenty- seven. The Absence and Emergence of Calligraphy in Najd: Calligraphy as a Modernist Component of Architecture in Riyadh -- Chapter Twenty- eight. Cairo to Canton and Back: Tradition in the Islamic Vernacular -- About the Contributors -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910822513103321
Gharipour Mohammad  
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui