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Author O'Kane, Bernard, author

Title Studies in Islamic painting, epigraphy and decorative arts Bernard O'Kane
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource illustrations (colour)
Series Collected papers in Islamic art
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE The Egyptian Art of the Tiraz in Fatimid Times -- CHAPTER TWO Monumental Calligraphy in Fatimid Egypt: Epigraphy in Stone, Stucco and Wood -- CHAPTER THREE The Great Jalayirid Shāhnāma -- CHAPTER FOUR Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo -- CHAPTER FIVE A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids -- CHAPTER SIX The Look of Language -- CHAPTER SEVEN Text and Paintings in the al-Wāsitī d Maqāmāt -- CHAPTER EIGHT Kalila o Demna: Illustrations in Manuscripts -- CHAPTER NINE Documentation of the Inscriptions in the Historic Zone of Cairo -- CHAPTER TEN The Uses of Persian on Monumental Epigraphy in Turkey -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Reconciliation or Estrangement? Colophon and Paintings in the TIEM Ẓafarnāma and Some Other Controversial Manuscripts -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Iconography of the Shānāma, Ms. Taʾrikh Farisī 73, Dar al-Kutub, Cairo (796/1393-4) -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN 'Introduction to Islamic Art', 'The Ayubs and Early Mamluks' and 'Iranian Art' -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Siyah Qalam: The Jalayirid Connections -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Bihbihani Anthology and its Antecedents -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Lifting the Veil from the Face of Persian Painting -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Rock Faces and Rock Figures in Persian Painting -- Index
Summary This lavishly illustrated volume features 19 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wealth of topics in medieval Islamic art, from the Siyah Qalam album paintings and Arab and Persian illustrated manuscripts, to Egyptian and Iranian decorative arts, and to epigraphic developments in Persian and Arabic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Islamic art.
Art, Medieval -- Arab countries
ART / History / Medieval
Art, Medieval
Islamic art
Arab countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1474474829
9781474474825
9781474474832
1474474837