Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Preface and Acknowledgments XI
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 The Sunni Revival 11
7. 2 The Transformation of Qur’ānic Writing 25
8. 3 The Public Text 53
9. 4 The Girih Mode: Vegetal and Geometric Arabesque 73
10. 5 Muqarnas Vaulting and Ash‘arī Occasionalism 103
11. 6 Stone Muqarnas and Other Special Devices 137
12. 7 The Mediation of Symbolic Forms 163
13. Notes 169
14. Abbreviations 191
15. Bibliography 193
16. Index 206