Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04920-9 (ISBN)
Esra Akın-Kıvanc 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.
A Note on Transcription and Translation
Introduction: Axes
Part I: A History of Mirror Writing
1. Perspectives: Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing
2. Foundations: The Practice of Mirror Writing
3. Orientations: Reversed and Repeated Writing in Non-Arabic and Arabic Scripts
4. Convergences: Mirror Writing in Greek and Arabic
5. Diffractions: Mirror Writing in Arabic
Part II: A Theory of Mirror Writing
6. Reflections: Mirrors in Islamic Studies
7. Illuminations: A New Discourse on Mirror Writing
8. Directions: The Single-Letter Muthanna
9. Receptions: Multiletter and Multiword Muthannas
10. Projections: Calligraphic Nazires and Mobility
Conclusion: Refractions
Works Consulted
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 47 B&W; 35 color |
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 998 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-04920-2 / 0253049202 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-04920-9 / 9780253049209 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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