Christiane (Hrsg.) Gruber

The Islamic Manuscript Tradition

Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections

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Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic Manuscript Tradition explores this aspect of Islamic history with studies of the materials and tools of literate culture, including pens, inks, and papers, Qur'ans, Persian and Mughal illustrated manuscripts, Ottoman devotional works, cartographical manuscripts, printed books, and Islamic erotica. Seven essays present new scholarship on a wide range of topics including collection, miniaturization, illustrated devotional books, the history of the printing press in Islamic lands, and the presence an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-02920-1
EAN: 9780253029201
Produktnummer: 21699127
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 8'906 KB
Abbildungen: 111 color illus., 11 b&w illus.

Über den Autor

Christiane Gruber is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art at Indiana University Bloomington. She is editor (with Frederick S. Colby) of The Prophet's Ascension: Cross-Cultural Encounters with the Islamic Mi'raj Tales (IUP, 2009) and author of The Timurid Book of Ascension (Mi'rajnama): A Study of Text and Image in a Pan-Asian Context and The Ilkhanid Book of Ascension: A Persian-Sunni Prayer Manual.