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Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy
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History, Theory, and Aesthetics
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Artikel-Nr:
9780253049209
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.09.2020
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Esra Akin-Kivanc
Gewicht:
953 g
Format:
257x183x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Esra Ak¿n-K¿vanc is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of South Florida's School of Art and Art History. She is author of Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists: A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World and coauthor of Sinan's Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-Century Texts.
In doing so, this study elaborates on the vital links between outward form and inner meaning in Islamic calligraphy.
A Note on Transcription and TranslationIntroduction: AxesPart I: A History of Mirror Writing1. Perspectives: Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing2. Foundations: The Practice of Mirror Writing3. Orientations: Reversed and Repeated Writing in Non-Arabic and Arabic Scripts4. Convergences: Mirror Writing in Greek and Arabic5. Diffractions: Mirror Writing in ArabicPart II: A Theory of Mirror Writing6. Reflections: Mirrors in Islamic Studies7. Illuminations: A New Discourse on Mirror Writing8. Directions: The Single-Letter Muthanna9. Receptions: Multiletter and Multiword Muthannas10. Projections: Calligraphic Nazires and MobilityConclusion: RefractionsWorks ConsultedIndex