| Kufic Stone Inscription Culture, Script, and Graphics: The Aesthetic Art and Global Heritage of Early Kufic Calligraphy Contributor(s): Mousavi Jazayeri, S. M. V. (Author), Christian, Leonie M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0984984321 ISBN-13: 9780984984329 Publisher: Blautopf Publishing OUR PRICE: $80.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Techniques - Calligraphy - Art | Middle Eastern - Art | History - Medieval |
| Dewey: 745.619 |
| LCCN: 2013916334 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8" W x 10.2" (2.05 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This reference book studies the script, art, and culture of the early Arabic Kufic calligraphy. It presents around hundred historical stone inscriptions, coins, and manuscripts from early-Islamic Persia. In their book, the primary author, S.M.V. Mousavi Jazayeri, a well-known Iranian calligrapher and early Kufic expert, and his fellow co-authors read and analyze with meticulous detail the calligraphy, script, and art work of thirty-seven Kufic gravestone inscriptions, mainly from the Yazd providence of Iran. The carefully-selected inscriptional sample in this book illustrates the remarkable power and versatility of this early script, and the extent of the global role played by it in shaping societies and cultures of a vast area extending from China to Spai |