New Publication (2010)
Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum
by Venetia Porter, with Robert Hoyland, Alexander Morton and Shailendra Bandhare
This catalogue is in two parts. The first focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals in the British Museum covering material from the 8th to the 20th century. The Introduction covers seal practice in different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the alama or motto, the use of figural representation on the seals, seal engravers, the forgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described. The features of the seals themselves, in particular the palaeography and dating of early Islamic seals, some grammatical features of the inscriptions, and the range of designs present on the seals are analysed. The types and form of Islamic names, the range of phrases that commonly appear and the characteristics of later seals are also discussed. The second part of the book focuses on 170 amulets in the collection preceded by an introduction to the subject. Research at the British Museum on engraving techniques is presented with analysis of the stones used.
196p, full color illus, paperback, 9780861591602, $90.00, British Museum Research Publication 160, British Museum Press, November 2010.
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Publication: “Biblioteca de al-Andalus”
From the Fundación Ibn Tufayl de Estudios Árabes we would like to inform you about the Biblioteca de al-Andalus, an unprecedented work that gathers and analyses the rich andalusian intelectual production, made with complete scientific rigour, within the Encyclopaedia of the Andalusian Culture project.
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Jon Thompson, Daniel Shaffer And Pirjetta Mildh, eds. CARPETS AND TEXTILES IN THE IRANIAN WORLD 1400-1700. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, In Association With The Bruschettini Foundation For Islamic And Asian Art, Genoa, 2010. (The Papers Given At The
International Conference Arranged By The May Beattie Carpet Archive and held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in August 2003).
For further information, see:
http://www.iranheritage.org/newsflash/CTIW.html
Kitab al-Diryaq from the BnF (ms.Arabe 2964), also known as Theriaque de Paris, was published in a faithful facsimile edition. The commentary, in 6 languages, has essays by Jaclynne Kerner, Marie Geneviève Guesdon, Oleg Grabar, Françoise Micheau and Anne Caiozzo.
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Codices Illustres is the official distributor for cultural institutions for this facsimile and, following a special agreement with the publisher, we are offering it with a 20% discount on the official price (while the regular price is E 2980,00, we sell it at E 2384 plus shipping). This offer is valid exclusively for cultural institutions and scholars.
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Manuscripts of the Middle East - 5 Volume Set
Until 9th July we offer the publisher's remaining stock of this journal with 30% discount. The title is already out of print and therefore very difficult to obtain:
Manuscripts of the Middle East - 5 Volume Set
A Journal devoted to the Study of Handwritten Materials of the Middle East
ISSN: 0920-0401
Editor: Prof. Jan Just Witkam
Publisher: Ter Lugt Press, Leiden
Publication date: 1986 - 1991
Former List Price: EUR 250 (title is out of print)
Paperback, 5 Vols, 34 x 24 cm each, b/w illustrations, total 702 pages
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GEOFFREY KHAN, Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan (Studies in the Khalili Collection, Volume V). London: Oxford, 2010.
Almir Ibric, Bilder und Tätwoeirungen im Islam. Eine Einführung in die Ethik und Ästhetik des Polytheismusverbots (Images and Tattoos in Islam. An
Introduction to the Ethics and Aesthetics of Ban on Polytheism), LIT VERLAG, 2010.
Tobias Heinzelmann und Henning Sievert (Hg.), Buchkultur im Nahen Osten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Welten des Islams Bd. 3. Bern 2010.
(Book Culture in the Near East in the 17th and 18th Centuries) See: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=430451&vLang=F&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=3
Iftikhar Dadi, Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks), University of North Carolina Press, May 2010.
Alain George, The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy, Saqi, 2010.
Stéphane Pradines, Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie. Islam médiéval en Afrique orientale, Publications de l'Ifao, 2010.
Alireza Naser Eslami. Architettura del mondo islamico. Dalla Spagna
all?India (VII-XV secolo) (Milano: Bruno Mondatori, 2010).
Giulia Annalinda Neglia. Medina. Medina. Notes of the Urban Landscapes
of South-Eastern Mediterranean Cities | Medina. Note sui paesaggi
urbani delle città del Mediterraneo sud-orientale (Bari: PolibaPress,
2009).
Laura Parodi, Tracing the History of a Mughal Album Page in the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art.
http://www.asianart.com/articles/mughal/index.html
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Islamic Arts from Spain (V&A Publishing, 2010).
Pedro Marfil, Las puertas de la mezquita de Córdoba durante el emirato omeya. Universidad de Córdoba, Spain, 2010.
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