Inscriptions of the medieval Islamic world / edited by Bernard O'Kane, A. C. S. Peacock and Mark Muehlhaeusler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Kane, Bernard, editor.

Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.), editor.

Muehlhaeusler, Mark, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.

Edinburgh studies in Islamic art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic inscriptions--History--To 1500.

Islamic inscriptions.

Visual communication--History--To 1500.

Visual communication.

Islamic civilization--Sources.

Islamic civilization.

Civilization, Medieval--Sources.

Civilization, Medieval.

Islamic countries--Antiquities.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 723 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume offers an overview of the state of the field, and shows the importance of Islamic inscriptions for disciplines such as art history, history and literature. The chapters range from surveys to detailed exploration of individual topics, providing an insight to some of the most recent cutting-edge work on Islamic inscriptions. It focuses on the period from the rise of Islam to the fifteenth century, ranging across the Islamic world from the Maghreb to India and Central Asia, and inscriptions in Arabic, Persian and Turkish.<br><br>The five sections of the book draw together some of the principal themes: 'Royal Power' investigates the role of sultanic patronage in epigraphy, and the use of inscriptions for projecting royal power. 'Piety' examines the relationship between epigraphy and religious practice. 'Epigraphic Style and Function' explores the relationship between the use of specific epigraphic styles and scripts and the function of a monument. 'Inscribed Objects' moves from monumental inscriptions to those on objects such as ceramics and pen-cases. The final section considers the interplay between inscriptions and historical sources as well as the utility of inscriptions as historical sources.

Contents:

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-Qurʾanic 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Peacock, A. C. S. Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World

ISBN:

9781474489461

147448946X

9781474489478

1474489478

OCLC:

1391098662