The rise of Islamic calligraphy
| 1. Verfasser: |
George, Alain, 1979-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London ; Berkeley, California :
Saqi,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
236 pages : illustrations (some coloured) ; 29 cm. |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
George, Alain, 1979-, Rise of Islamic calligraphy. (Online version:) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Looking for the origins.
- The Arabic script before Islam
- The earliest Islamic documents
- The earliest manuscripts of the Qur'an
- The scribal world of Late Antiquity
- Codex versus scroll
- Format, ruling, quires and decoration
- Pens, strokes and dots
- Christian scribes of the Qur'an
- The birth of Kufic.
- A novel codification
- The inscriptions at the Dome of Rock
- The milestones of 'Abd al-Malik
- The epigraphic coinage
- Umayyad manuscripts of the Qur'an
- Economy and ideology in early Kufic
- On calligraphy and proportion.
- The architecture of the page
- Proportions in Plato's Timaeus
- Artisans and intellectual circles in early Islamic times
- Calligraphy and music : the tenth century
- Towards the codification of cursive.
- The new style
- The growth of cursive
- The role of Ibn Muqla
- Calligraphy and the breakdown of the empire
- Economy, orthography and legibility.
