This, the first of the two volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, deals mainly with Ottoman, Iranian, and Indian Qur'ans of the 17th and 18th centuries, but also includes material from China and North and East Africa. There are 78 entries and 10 essays on different aspects of Qur'an manuscript production, which - in several cases - break new ground.

The Decorated Word: Qur'ans of the 17th to 19th Centuries (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL IV Part 1)

Arts & Photography

Contadini, Anna

Stanley, Tim

Bayani, Manijeh

History & Criticism

Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Victoria & Albert Museum

<p>This, the first of two volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, deals mainly with Ottoman, Iranian and Indian Qur'ans of the 17th and 18th centuries, but also includes material from China and North East Africa. There are 78 entries and 10 essays on different aspects of Qur'an manuscript production, which - in several cases - break new ground.</p>

The Decorated Word: Qur'ans of the 17th to 19th centuries AD, Part 1 (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)

Khalili Collections

Anna Contadini, PhD (1992) in Islamic Art, SOAS, London University, where she is Reader in Islamic Art. Her publications include Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A 1998) and numerous works on Islamic manuscripts, artefacts, and artistic exchanges between Europe and the Middle East.

Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)

Reference

BRILL

The Kitāb Naʿt al-Ḥayawān is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The present study considers both the confluence of textual traditions within this work and the stylistic and iconographic relationships of its illustrations, which make it a key witness to early thirteenth-century Arab painting. After a re-evaluation of previous approaches, emphasis is placed on relating image to text, on stylistic affiliations, and on the modalities of production, supported by technical analyses undertaken for the first time. In elucidating the particular context of this unique manuscript, the study contributes to our understanding of a critical period in the development of Middle Eastern painting and art.

A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (The Kitab Na't al-Hayawan) in the Ibn Bakhtushu Tradition

Brill Academic Pub

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