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Libro 9 di 28: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
 
9781474489447: Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
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ISBN 10: 1474489443 ISBN 13: 9781474489447
Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2023

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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.
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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Bernard O’Kane is Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Timurid Architecture in Khurasan (1987), Studies in Persian Art and Architecture (1996) and Early Persian Painting (2003); and the editor of Treasures of Islamic Art in the Museums of Cairo (2006).

A.C.S. Peacock is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Early Seljuq History (2010).

Mark Muehlhaeusler is a Senior Instructor at the American University in Cairo.

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Editore
Oxford Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1474489443
ISBN 13 
9781474489447
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
723
Redattore
O'Kane Bernard, Peacock A. C. S., Muehlhaeusler Mark
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