Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Figures v
4. Introduction 1
5. Part A: Sites
6. Chapter One.Inscribing the Square: The Inscriptions on the Maidān-i Shāh in Iṣfahān 13
7. Chapter Two. Speaking Architecture: Poetry and Aesthetics in the Alhambra Palace 29
8. Chapter Three. The Arabic Calligraphy on the Ceiling of the Twelfth- Century Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily: Function and Identity 46
9. Chapter Four. Wall- Less Walls: The Calligraphy at the Hadži Sinanova Tekija in Sarajevo 67
10. Chapter Five. The Qur’anic Inscriptions of the Minaret of Jām in Afghanistan 83
11. Part B: Style vs Content
12. Chapter Six. Multi- Sensorial Messages of the Divine and the Personal: Qur’an Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth- Century Ottoman Mosques in Istanbul 105
13. Chapter Seven. The Revival of Kūfī Script during the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II 119
14. Chapter Eight. Calligraphy in Chinese Mosques: At the Intersection of Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy 139
15. Chapter Nine. Qur’anic Verses on Works of Architecture: The Ottoman Case 159
16. Chapter Ten. Reading Qājār Epigraphs: Case Studies from Shīrāz and Iṣfahān 178
17. Part C: Patronage
18. Chapter Eleven ‘The Pen Has Extolled Her Virtues’: Gender and Power within the Visual Legacy of Shajar al- Durr in Cairo 199
19. Chapter Twelve. Sovereign Epigraphy in Location: Politics, Devotion and Legitimisation around the Quṭb Minār, Delhi 217
20. Chapter Thirteen. Archival Evidence on the Commissioning of Architectural Calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire 230
21. Chapter Fourteen. On the Renewal of t he Calligraphy at the Mosque of the Prophet (al- Masjid al- Nabawī) under the Reign of Sultan Abdülmecid 253
22. Chapter Fifteen. Fāṭimid Kūfī Epigraphy on the Gates of Cairo: Between Royal Patronage and Civil Utility 275
23. Chapter Sixteen. An Art Ambassador: The Inscriptions of 'Alī Riżā 'Abbāsī 293
24. Chapter Seventeen. Mustafa Râkım Efendi’s Architectural Calligraphy 306
25. Chapter Eighteen. Yesârîzâde Mustafa Īzzet Efendi and his Contributions to Ottoman Architectural Calligraphy 326
26. Chapter Nineteen. The Visual Interpretation of Nasta'līq in Architecture: Mīrzā Gholām Reżā’s Monumental Inscriptions for the Sepahsālār Mosque in Tehran 346
27. Part E: Regional
28. Chapter Twenty. Ma‘qilī Inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin: Stylistic and Epigraphic Contexts 363
29. Chapter Twenty- one. The Composition of Kūfī Inscriptions in Transitional and Early- Islamic Architecture of North Khurāsān 379
30. Chapter Twenty-two. Space and Calligraphy in the Chinese Mosque 400
31. Chapter Twenty- three. Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo 416
32. Chapter Twenty- four. Allegiance, Praise and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in Thirteenth- Century Anatolia as Architectural Guides 431
33. Chapter Twenty- five. Symmetrical Compositions in Asia Minor Chapter Twenty- five Symmetrical Compositions in Pre- Ottoman and Ottoman Architectural Inscriptions in Asia Minor 447
34. Part F: Modernity
35. Chapter Twenty- six. Writing Less, Saying More: Calligraphy and Modernisation in the Last Ottoman Century 465
36. Chapter Twenty- seven. The Absence and Emergence of Calligraphy in Najd: Calligraphy as a Modernist Component of Architecture in Riyadh 484
37. Chapter Twenty- eight. Cairo to Canton and Back: Tradition in the Islamic Vernacular 499
38. About the Contributors 515
39. Index 521