TY - BOOK AU - Gharipour,Mohammad AU - Schick,Irvin Cemil TI - Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World SN - 9781474468428 AV - NK3636.5 .C355 2013 U1 - 729.19091767 PY - 2013/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Islamic calligraphy KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- List of 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 thePersonal: Qur'an Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosques in Istanbul -- Chapter Seven The Revival of Kῡfῑ 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 Shῑrāz 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 the Calligraphy at the Mosque ofthe Prophet (al-Masjid al-Nabawῑ) under the Reign of Sultan Abdülmecid -- Chapter Fifteen Fāṭimid Kῡfῑ Epigraphy on the Gates of Cairo: Between Royal Patronage and Civil Utility -- PART D: ARTISTS -- Chapter Sixteen An Art Ambassador: The Inscriptions of 'Alῑ Riẓā 'Abbāsῑ -- Chapter Seventeen Mustafa Râkım Efendi's Architectural Calligraphy; Chapter Eighteen Yesârîzâde Mustafa İzzet Efendi and his Contributionsto 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 Transitionaland 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 Inscriptionsin Thirteenth-Century Anatolia as Architectural Guides -- 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 Architecturein Riyadh -- Chapter Twenty-eight Cairo to Canton and Back: Tradition in the Islamic Vernacular -- About the Contributors -- Index N2 - No detailed description available for "Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6141825 ER -