"This book explores the myriad interactions between calligraphy and architecture throughout the history of the Muslim world. From Spain to China, Islamic architecture and calligraphy are inexorably intertwined. Mosques, dervish lodges, mausolea,...
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"This book explores the myriad interactions between calligraphy and architecture throughout the history of the Muslim world. From Spain to China, Islamic architecture and calligraphy are inexorably intertwined. Mosques, dervish lodges, mausolea, libraries, even baths and marketplaces bear masterpieces of calligraphy that rival the most refined books and scrolls. This major reference work focuses on architectural inscriptions throughout the Muslim world, some going back to the Middle Ages, others dating from our own lifetime. What were the purposes of these inscriptions? How do they infuse buildings with culturally specific meanings, sacred or profane? What do they add to architectural design? What sorts of materials were used, and how do they interact with light and space? Who were their patrons, and what do we know about the artists who produced them? You can find out with this exciting new collection written by a stellar cast of international contributors. It features 28 case studies explain different aspects and contexts of calligraphy in Islamic architecture. It is geographically wide-ranging - covers North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, China and Spain. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to analysing calligraphy as part of its larger spatial-architectural context. It is lavishly illustrated with 400 colour images
Introduction; Part A: 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,
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 Abdulhamid II,
'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 Qusb Minar, Delhi,
An Art Ambassador: The Inscriptions of 'Ali Reza' Abbasi, / Saeid Khaghani; 17.Mustafa Rakim Efendi's Architectural Calligraphy,
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,
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,