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Title: SPLENDOURS OF QUR'AN CALLIGRAPHY & ILLUMINATION
By: Martin Lings
Format: Hardback

List price: £65.00


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ISBN 10: 3908153603
ISBN 13: 9783908153603
Publisher: THESAURUS ISLAMICUS FOUNDATION
Pub. date: 1 April, 2005
Pages: 454
Synopsis: The finest examples of this distinctive Islamic art form ever published. Within three centuries of its advent, Islam had produced an architecture and a calligraphic art, including that of illumination, that have seldom been equaled and never surpassed, the one centered on the Mosque and the other on the Qur'an. But whereas Islamic architecture is world famous, its calligraphic art has remained relatively unknown and inaccessible. Black-and-white photographs of the art of calligraphy are plentiful, but a page of script, impressive though it can be in black and white, loses much without the tints of the paper and the ink. "Splendours of Qur'an Calligraphy and Illumination" reproduces the formal excellence of colors and texture that distinguish these artistic masterpieces. In all, 180 openings are displayed, carefully chosen from the greatest collections of Qur'an manuscripts in the world. 180 color large illustrations.
Publication: Switzerland
Imprint: Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
Returns: Returnable
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