Studies in Islamic painting, epigraphy and decorative arts Bernard O'Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Kane, Bernard, author.

Series:

Collected Papers in Islamic Art : CPIA

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic art.

Art, Medieval--Arab countries.

Art, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This lavishly illustrated volume features 19 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wealth of topics in medieval Islamic art, from the Siyah Qalam album paintings and Arab and Persian illustrated manuscripts, to Egyptian and Iranian decorative arts, and to epigraphic developments in Persian and Arabic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

CHAPTER ONE The Egyptian Art of the Tiraz in Fatimid Times

CHAPTER TWO Monumental Calligraphy in Fatimid Egypt: Epigraphy in Stone, Stucco and Wood

CHAPTER THREE The Great Jalayirid Shāhnāma

CHAPTER FOUR Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo

CHAPTER FIVE A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids

CHAPTER SIX The Look of Language

CHAPTER SEVEN Text and Paintings in the al-Wāsitī d Maqāmāt

CHAPTER EIGHT Kalila o Demna: Illustrations in Manuscripts

CHAPTER NINE Documentation of the Inscriptions in the Historic Zone of Cairo

CHAPTER TEN The Uses of Persian on Monumental Epigraphy in Turkey

CHAPTER ELEVEN Reconciliation or Estrangement? Colophon and Paintings in the TIEM Ẓafarnāma and Some Other Controversial Manuscripts

CHAPTER TWELVE The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Iconography of the Shānāma, Ms. Taʾrikh Farisī 73, Dar al-Kutub, Cairo (796/1393–4)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ‘Introduction to Islamic Art’, ‘The Ayubs and Early Mamluks’ and ‘Iranian Art’

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Siyah Qalam: The Jalayirid Connections

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Bihbihani Anthology and its Antecedents

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Lifting the Veil from the Face of Persian Painting

CHAPTER NINETEEN Rock Faces and Rock Figures in Persian Painting

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Other Format:

Print version: O'Kane, Bernard Studies in Islamic Painting, Epigraphy and Decorative Arts

ISBN:

1-4744-7483-7

1-4744-7482-9

OCLC:

1289814161