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Art

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         This section includes topics relating to Islamic art such as calligraphy and the history of its development.

 


Grabar, Oleg (1929-  )

429. Shaklgr-yi Hunar-i Islm [The Formation of Islamic Art], trans. Wadat-Dnishmand, Mihrdd, Tehran: Pazhhishgh-i `Ulm-i Insn wa Mulibt-i Farhang, 1st Edition / 2000 copies, 12 +264+ [78] pp., Farsi, 24x17 cm (pbk), Pictures: 264-342, Bibliography: 251-264.

Supplemented by  The chronology of the early years of Islam, pp249-250.

ISBN: 964-426-115-1

LC: N6260/G4SH8

Dewey: 709/17671

ID: B40195

Title of the original:

The Formation of Islamic Art

The book puts forward the thesis that the Islamic conquests were not accompanied by any destruction and that Muslims used them as occasions for the assimilation of the arts of the subject people. The topics include: the actual examples of Islamic architecture, mosques, secular art (palace, city), and the decorative varieties in early Islam (plaster work, masonary, tile work).

 

430. Hunar-i Kha wa Zann-i Khush-Nivs dar Tamaddun-i Islm [Calligraphy and Women Calligraphers in Islam], ed. `Aqq-Bakhshyish, `Udhr (1968-  ), Qum: Bakhshyish, 1st Edition / 3000 copies, 206 pp., Farsi, 24x17 cm (pbk), Bibliography: In the footnotes, Bibliography: 205-206.

Introduction:  N. By the Pen and Whatever They Record, `Aqq-Bakhshyish, `Abd al-Ram, pp15-31.

ISBN: 964-7090-04-8

LC: NK3633/A2A7

Dewey: 745/619

ID: B30315

 

Pk-Sirisht, Murta (1963-  )

431. Khushnivs dar Khidmat-i Kitbat-i Qurn-i Majd [Calligraphy in the Service of Quranic Transcription], ed. Mu`winat-i Farhang-yi Wizrat-i Farhang wa Irshd-i Islm, Tehran: Qadyn, 1st Edition / 3300 copies, 448 pp., Farsi, 19x13 cm (pbk), Bibliography: In the footnotes, Documents: On different pages, Bibliography: 446-448.

ISBN: 964-417-388-1

LC: NK3636/5/A2P2

ID: B40145

It is devoted to the transcription and illumination of the Quran, and the scribes and calligraphers from the 7th-20th centuries. The book is mainly confined to Iran and covers other Muslim countries only in a cursory manner. It opens with the history of the Quran, copies of the Quran transcribed by the Infallibles (`a), and Quranic writing in the 7th-10th centuries; and concludes with accounts of Iranian scribes and their Qurans, and descriptions of a number of exceptional copies of the Quran as regards their style of writing and illumination. Chapters seven and eight discuss the influence of the Iranian writing on the other Muslim countries, and the use of Quranic calligraphy in the Iranian art. 287 photographs of various Qurans and other artifacts containing Quranic inscriptions are interspersed throughout the book.