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The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana

The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana

by Professor Sheila S. Blair
Publication Date: 01/11/1991

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Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (AD 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic, they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose nature implies the construction of major buildings. An extended introduction discusses such general topics as titulature, patronage, and stylistic development. Each text is then presented individually with photographs, drawings, transcriptions, translations and an extensive commentary, which presents the inscription in its larger palaeographic and historical contexts.
ISBN:
9789004093676
9789004093676
Category:
Islamic studies
Publication Date:
01-11-1991
Language:
English
Publisher:
Brill
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
307
Dimensions (mm):
240x160x22mm
Weight:
1.31kg

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