Thirty-six papyri in the Khalili collection, all dating before the Fatimid conquest of Egypt in AD 968.

Selected Arabic Papyri (Studies in the Khalili Collection, VOL I)

Arts & Photography

Khan, Geoffrey

History & Criticism

The Khalili Collection contains the largest and most comprehensive range of Qur'anic material in private hands. This, the first of four volumes devoted to the subject, covers the three major styles of Qur'anic calligraphy that came into existence before AD 1000. The catalogue contains 98 items which are described and illustrated in colour. Included among these are a significant number of complete manuscripts, some with their original bindings; two folios from the famous 9th-century Qur'an which was written in gold on blue parchment; and two quires from a 10th-century Qur'an, the only copy known to have been produced in Sicily. The introduction includes a survey of the codicology and illumination of early Qur'ans, and discusses problems of classification and dating. The author's system of classifying early Qur'anic scripts is set out in five tables, and the calligraphic styles themselves are discussed in three essays (Hijazi script; Early Abbasid scripts, and the New Style).

The Abbasid Tradition: Qur'ans of the 8th to 10th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL I)

Déroche, François

This, the second of the four-volume catalogue of the Qur'anic material in the Collection, covers the period from AD 1000 to 1400 and includes examples from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Anatolia, India, Spain and North Africa. The 56 items presented here include a Qur'an written in gold in 12th-century Iraq; one of a small group of Qur'ans known to have been produced in Valencia in the same period; and what may be the earliest surviving Qur'an from India. Even more remarkable is a section from a 30-part Qur'an written by Yaqut al-Musta'simi, the greatest Islamic calligrapher of the later Middle Ages: other sections from the same Qur'an are in Istanbul and Dublin, but this is the only one to retain its original illumination. These important items are the subject of substantial new studies and other essays cover Qur'an production in Damascus and manuscript patronage in Shiraz under the Inju'ids and Muzaffarids. The detailed catalogue entries are complemented by multiple colour illustrations, and colophons and other significant documentation are reproduced with full translations.

The Master Scribes: Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL II)

JAMES, DAVID

History

The third of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans in the Khalili Collection, this book includes fifteenth century Qur'ans in Iran, Egypt, Syria, Constantinople, and India as well as sixteenth century Qur'ans in Iran and India.

After Timur: Qur'ans of the 15th and 16th Centuries (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL III)

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)

Contadini, Anna

Stanley, Tim

Bayani, Manijeh

The demanding discipline of calligraphy, centering on the power of the written word and transmitted from master to pupil through the ages, is central to Islamic cultures and is the source of one of the world's richest artistic traditions. The 174 examples of the art published in this volume represent its scope and its continuity over a period of six centuries. They include works by many of the most celebrated calligraphers, beginning with the influential Yaqut in the late 13th century, and by such distinguished amateurs as the Ottoman sultans, Abd lmecid I and Mahmud II. This is the most comprehensive study yet made of the subject, examining many fundamental aspects of a calligrapher's activity for the first time. The author discusses the artists' training and the key elements of the calligraphic repertoire, including albums of sample works, stencils and miniature script, cut-out work and gilded leaves. To complement the text, examples of all of the principal types of historical script have been provided by an eminent modern calligrapher.

THE ART OF THE PEN: Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries(The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL V)

Safwat, Nabil F.

Dating mainly from the 8th and 9th centuries, the 258 papyri in this volume include official and legal documents, receipts, accounts and private letters. Together, they provide an invaluable source of information on scripts, grammar, and literary styles, as well as on social and economic life in the early Islamic period.

BILL, LETTERS AND DEEDS: Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL VI)

This is the first of a two-volume catalogue of the ceramic holdings in the Khalili Collection - nearly 2,000 objects that represent over a millennium of production from all over the Muslim world. It concentrates on the beauty of the work of the early Muslim potters through a selection of 406 items. The Collection contains many remarkable objects, including masterpieces with few, if any, parallels. Amongst these is a 9th-century relief-decorated dish, one of only a dozen in existence and arguably the most beautiful; an underglaze painted openwork ewer from Iran - a technical tour-de-force with only one known counterpart; and a signed bottle which is the earliest known dated ceramic from Iran. The various wares produced from the 7th to the 13th centuries are discussed at length in art historical and technical essays which incorporate the latest archaeological evidence. The items are illustrated in colour, with profile and detail drawings; the decipherable inscriptions are reproduced with translations; and a full scholarly apparatus provides references to comparative items and to further reading.

COBALT AND LUSTRE: The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL IX)

Grube

Nasser, Nahla

Northedge, Alastair

Tonghini, Christina

Catalogue of more than 300 examples of pre-Islamic and Islamic glass objects that are held in the Khalili Collection. The objects are grouped according to techniques of manufacture and decoration, and chronologically; the catalogue illustrating the development of glass making technology from its Byzantine and Sasanian beginnings into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when European makers found new inspiration in Islamic forms. Mould formed glass and vessels with applied decoration, especially enamelling are well represented in the collection, and those with carved decoration are outstanding.

Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XV)

Shalem, Avinoam

Goldstein, Sidney M.

Kröger, Jens

Gibson, Melanie

Although few examples of royal Mughal jewelled and enamelled work survive, the Khalili Collection contains some outstanding vessels from 17th and early 18th century royal Mughal workshops. These are presented in this volume, alongside a wide range of personal jewellery.

DINARS AND DIRHAMS. Coins of the Islamic Lands. The Early Period Part One and Part Two (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XIX)

Carvalho, Pedro Moura

SAVAGE,ELIZABETH

Baidoun, Isa

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