Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art)

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Figures\nList of Tables\nThe Contributors\nSeries Editor’s Foreword\nAcknowledgements\nDedication\nChapter 1 Introduction\nPart I Inscriptions and Royal Power\n	Chapter 2 The Fatimid Public Text Revisited\n	Chapter 3 Micro and Macro Power Projection in the Medieval Islamic World: The Architectural and Numismatic Epigraphic Evidence\n	Chapter 4 The Monumental Inscriptions of the Great Seljuqs Malikshāh and Tutush: Observations on Texts, Protocols and Writing Styles\n	Chapter 5 New Epigraphic Data from a Ghurid Monument at Chisht-i Sharif: Expressing Power and Piety in Sixth/Twelfth-Century Afghanistan\nPart II Inscriptions and Piety\n	Chapter 6 Stars and Symmetry: The Name of the Prophet Muḥammad in Architectural Inscriptions\n	Chapter 7 Barakat Muḥammad: Notes on Square Kufic Epigraphy in the History of Morocco\n	Chapter 8 Islamic Supplications in the Funerary Architecture of Medieval Castile\n	Chapter 9 The Shaykh and the Amir: Reflections on the non-Qurʾanic Epigraphic Programme in the Buildings of Shaykhū al-ʿUmarī al-Nāṣirī\nPart III Inscriptions, History and Society\n	Chapter 10 Tombstones from Aswan in the British Museum\n	Chapter 11 Marwanid Inscriptions\n	Chapter 12 The Rise of New Epigraphic Languages in the Medieval Islamic East: The Interplay of Persian, Turkish and Arabic on Inscriptions\n	Chapter 13 Inscriptions from the Golden Horde Period and the Crimean Khanate in Crimea: A Body of Hitherto Neglected Material within the Study of the Inscriptions of Islamic Lands\nPart IV Inscribed Objects\n	Chapter 14 The Epigraphic Samarra Horizon: Blue-on-White Ceramics\n	Chapter 15 Art with Poetry: Inscriptions on Mamluk Metalwork\n	Chapter 16 ‘The Calligrapher is an Ape!’ Arabic Epigrams on Pen Boxes (Sixth/Twelfth–Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)\n	Chapter 17 Between the Artist and the Patron: Painted Inscriptions of the Khamsa of Shah Ṭahmāsb\nPart V Epigraphic Style and Function\n	Chapter 18 The Influence of Aesthetics on Orthographic Decisions in the Early Islamic Graffiti of Wadi al-Khirqa, Northern Hijaz\n	Chapter 19 The Here and the Hereafter: Rounded and Angular Inscriptions in Medieval Syria, Anatolia and the Jazira\n	Chapter 20 Luted Letters: The Relief Inscriptions on Kashan Lustre Mihrabs\n	Chapter 21 Carved Letters, Designs and Ornaments: Ilkhanid Stuccos and ‘Signatures’ of their Craftsmen\n	Chapter 22 The Qutb Minar: Epigraphic Notes\nIndex