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This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.

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Editor’s Preface Author’s Note Translator’s Note List of Illustrations Notes on Alphabetical Order, Pronunciation, Transcription and Dates Transcription Tables Abbreviations The Persian Treatises as Primary Sources on Iranian Calligraphy آ ا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ه ی Appendix 1: Map of Greater Iran Appendix 2: Map of the Persianate World Appendix 3: Major Islamic Dynasties Bibliography of Cited, Selected Related Works, and Abbreviations Index of Personal and Historical Names Index of Technical Notions, Materials and Terms General Index

A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts

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    A Hardback by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Shervin Farridnejad, Rebecca Stengel

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 25/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9789004277472, 978-9004277472
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.

      Table of Contents
      Editor’s Preface Author’s Note Translator’s Note List of Illustrations Notes on Alphabetical Order, Pronunciation, Transcription and Dates Transcription Tables Abbreviations The Persian Treatises as Primary Sources on Iranian Calligraphy آ ا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ه ی Appendix 1: Map of Greater Iran Appendix 2: Map of the Persianate World Appendix 3: Major Islamic Dynasties Bibliography of Cited, Selected Related Works, and Abbreviations Index of Personal and Historical Names Index of Technical Notions, Materials and Terms General Index

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