The art of the Qurʼan : treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts / Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig ; with contributions by François Déroche, Edhem Eldem, Jane McAuliffe, Sana Mirza, and Zeren Tanındı.

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Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi [Browse]
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Book
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English
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  • Washington, DC : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, [2016]
  • ©2016
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382 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 33 cm

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      This story unfolds in Qur'ans from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, the companion publication to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's groundbreaking exhibition, the first major presentation of Qur'ans in the United States. The book's authors describe the formation of this one-of-a-kind collection and the history of TIEM, whose centuries-old records on patrons, calligraphers, illuminators, and provenance allow us to create "biographies" detailing the production of the Qur'ans in the exhibition. Essays address the Qur'an as a written text--from content and organization to the elaborate calligraphy and illuminated designs that transformed the volumes into beautiful artworks. Qur'ans also includes in-depth descriptions of some seventy works from TIEM and the Smithsonian's Sackler and Freer Galleries. It features full-page, color images of the earliest known Qur'an folios and manuscripts from the Umayyad and Abbasid Near East (7th-10th century), Seljuk Iran and Anatolia (12th century), the Mongol Il-Khanid and Timurid empires and Mamluk Cairo (14th and 15th centuries), Safavid and Ottoman empires (16th and 17th centuries) as well as a number of mosque furnishings, such as Qur'an boxes and stands. Most of these works have rarely, if ever, been published. --Publisher.
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      Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2016-February 20, 2017.
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      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Foreword / Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali ; Seracettin Şahin ; Julian Raby
      • Essays : Introduction / Massumeh Farhad
      • The Qur'an / Jane McAuliffe
      • In the beginning: early Qur'an from Damascus / François Déroche
      • Shaping the word of God: visual codifications of the Qur'an between 1000 and 1700 / Simon Rettig
      • Illumination and decorative designs in Qur'anic manuscripts / Zeren Tanındı
      • The genesis of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts / Edhem Eldem
      • Catalogue : The Umayyads and the early Abbasid period, 650-1000
      • The late Abbasid period, 1000-1250
      • The Mongols and their successors, 1250-1500
      • The Mamluks, 1250-1500
      • The Safavids, 1500-1700
      • The Ottomans, 1400-1700.
      ISBN
      • 9781588345783 ((hardcover))
      • 1588345785 ((hardcover))
      • 9780934686402 ((paperback))
      • 0934686408 ((paperback))
      LCCN
      2016031073
      OCLC
      953576432
      Other standard number
      • 40026612810
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