Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Tables xx
5. The Contributors xxi
6. Series Editor’s Foreword xxvi
7. Acknowledgements xxvii
8. CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1
9. PART I INSCRIPTIONS AND ROYAL POWER
10. CHAPTER TWO The Fatimid Public Text Revisited 17
11. CHAPTER THREE Micro and Macro Power Projection in the Medieval Islamic World: The Architectural and Numismatic Epigraphic Evidence 38
12. CHAPTER FOUR The Monumental Inscriptions of the Great Seljuqs Malikshāh and Tutush: Observations on Texts, Protocols and Writing Styles 57
13. CHAPTER FIVE New Epigraphic Data from a Ghurid Monument at Chisht-i Sharif: Expressing Power and Piety in Sixth/Twelfth-Century Afghanistan 81
14. PART II INSCRIPTIONS AND PIETY
15. CHAPTER SIX Stars and Symmetry: The Name of the Prophet Muh∙ ammad in Architectural Inscriptions 115
16. CHAPTER SEVEN Barakat Muḥammad: Notes on Square Kufic Epigraphy in the History of Morocco 146
17. CHAPTER EIGHT Islamic Supplications in the Funerary Architecture of Medieval Castile 173
18. CHAPTER NINE The Shaykh and the Amir: Reflections on the non-Qur'anic Epigraphic Programme in the Buildings of Shaykhū al-'Umarī al-Nāṣirī 211
19. PART III INSCRIPTIONS, HISTORY AND SOCIETY
20. CHAPTER TEN Tombstones from Aswan in the British Museum 241
21. CHAPTER ELEVEN Marwanid Inscriptions 264
22. CHAPTER TWELVE The Rise of New Epigraphic Languages in the Medieval Islamic East: The Interplay of Persian, Turkish and Arabic on Inscriptions 283
23. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Inscriptions from the Golden Horde Period and the Crimean Khanate in Crimea: A Body of Hitherto Neglected Material within the Study of the Inscriptions of Islamic Lands 324
24. PART IV INSCRIBED OBJECTS
25. CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Epigraphic Samarra Horizon: Blue-on-White Ceramics 363
26. CHAPTER FIFTEEN Art with Poetry: Inscriptions on Mamluk Metalwork 389
27. CHAPTER SIXTEEN ‘The Calligrapher is An Ape!’ Arabic Epigrams on Pen Boxes (Sixth/ Twelfth–Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) 436
28. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Between the Artist and the Patron: Painted Inscriptions of the Khamsa of Shah Ṭahmāsb 535
29. PART V EPIGRAPHIC STYLE AND FUNCTION
30. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Influence of Aesthetics on Orthographic Decisions in the Early Islamic Graffiti of Wadi al-Khirqa, Northern Hijaz 559
31. CHAPTER NINETEEN The Here and the Hereafter: Rounded and Angular Inscriptions in Medieval Syria, Anatolia and the Jazira 583
32. CHAPTER TWENTY Luted Letters: The Relief Inscriptions on Kashan Lustre Mihrabs 606
33. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Carved Letters, Designs and Ornaments: Ilkhanid Stuccos and the ‘Signatures’ of their Craftsmen 642
34. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Qutb Minar: Epigraphic Notes 671
35. Index 711