Full Description
This volume, lavishly illustrated with many images previously unpublished in colour, features articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide range of topics in medieval Islamic art. Controversial subjects such as the Siyah Qalam album paintings are examined in detail, as well as major masterpieces of illustrated manuscripts, both Arab and Persian. Egyptian and Iranian examples of decorative arts, including woodwork, textiles, ceramics and metalwork are analysed, from large-scale minbars to ivory boxes. And epigraphic developments in Persian and Arabic, from the 10th to the 15th centuries in Egypt and Iran, are explored.
Contents
1. The Egyptian Art of Ṭirāz in Fatimid Times; 2. Monumental Calligraphy in Fatimid Egypt: Epigraphy in Stone, Stucco, and Wood; 3. The Great Jalayirid Shahnama; 4. Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo; 5. A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids; 6. The Look of Language; 7. Text and Paintings in the al-Wāsiṭī Maqāmāt; 8. Kalila o Demna iii. Illustrations in Manuscripts; 9. Documentation of the Inscriptions in the Historic Zone of Cairo; 10. The Uses of Persian on Monumental Epigraphy in Turkey; 11. Reconciliation or Estrangement? Colophon and Paintings in the TIEM Ẓafarnāma and Some Other Controversial Manuscripts; 12. The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts; 13. The Iconography of the Shahnama, Ms. tarikh farisī 73, Dar al-Kutub, Cairo (796/13934); 14. Introduction to Islamic Art, Art of the Ayyubids and Bahri Mamluks and Iranian Art; 15. Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture; 16. Siyah Qalam: The Jalayirid Connections; 17. The Bihbihani Anthology and Its Antecedents; 18. Lifting the Veil from the Face of Persian Painting; 19. Rock Faces and Rock Figures in Persian Painting.
