This book documents the four lectures Professor Schimmel delivered in 1982 at the Hagop Kervorkian Centre, New York University on Islamic calligraphy.
In the lectures, Professor Schimmel talks about different styles of calligraphy and the development of Arabic script from the early Kufi to modern calligraphic painting. Special focuses are put on the role of calligrapher, the employment of wordplays and puns based on the terminology of calligraphy by Arabic poets, the use of calligraphic imagery in Islamic poetry, and the religious significance of calligraphy in Muslim culture.
With notes and bibliography. An appendix with a list of mystical alphabets in Urdu according to the order of letters in Sanskrit is included.
In the lectures, Professor Schimmel talks about different styles of calligraphy and the development of Arabic script from the early Kufi to modern calligraphic painting. Special focuses are put on the role of calligrapher, the employment of wordplays and puns based on the terminology of calligraphy by Arabic poets, the use of calligraphic imagery in Islamic poetry, and the religious significance of calligraphy in Muslim culture.
With notes and bibliography. An appendix with a list of mystical alphabets in Urdu according to the order of letters in Sanskrit is included.
Alternative title
Hagop Kervorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilisation
Access level
Onsite
author
Location code
REF.SCA3
Language
English
Keyword
Publication/Creation date
1990
No of pages
264
ISBN / ISSN
0814778968
No of copies
1
Content type
monograph,
transcript
Chapter headings
Styles of Calligraphy
Calligraphers, Dervishes, and Kings
Calligraphy and Mysticism
Calligraphy and Poetry
Calligraphy and Islamic Culture
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