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A handbook of Persian calligraphy and related arts

Title: A handbook of Persian calligraphy and related arts / by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani ; translated by Rebecca Stengel ; edited, revised and extended by Shervin Farridnejad.
Author: Qilīchʹkhānī, Ḥamīd Riz̤ā
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description

xxvii, 396 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Persian Calligraphy and related traditional arts of books make up the most important forms of Iranian-Islamic art, which are still living practiced traditions up to today. This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook and contains the most important termini technici as well as expressions and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy (mostly Nasta'līq), calligraphy tools such as the reed pen, paper and ink as well as some related fields, like taẕhīb (illumination), taš'īr (historiated painting), book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries. All terms and expressions are followed by an English description and often accompanied by an illustration. These expressions, which are key to understanding old calligraphic treatises and many relevant sources on Islamic art, are meant to familiarise the reader with both common and forgotten techniques and terminology of calligraphic traditions. The volume addresses not only the artists and scholars of Iranian and Islamic art history, but also those, who have dealt with Islamic and Iranian manuscripts, manuscript cultures, codicology and palaeography. Both the author and the editor of this volume are trained practicing calligraphers and illuminators, who learned the art of calligraphy and illumination through long, traditional study under masters of this art"--

Series Statement

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 109

Uniform Title

Farhang-i vāzhagān va iṣṭilāḥāt-i khūshnivīsī va hunarhā-yi vābastah. English
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 109.

Alternative Title

Farhang-i vāzhagān va iṣṭilāḥāt-i khūshnivīsī va hunarhā-yi vābastah.

Subject

Genre/Form

Dictionaries.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-366) and indexes.

Language (note)

Selections translated from the Persian.

Call Number

JFE 22-5244

ISBN

9789004277472
9004277471

LCCN

2021034002
40030943285

OCLC

1260692994

Author

Qilīchʹkhānī, Ḥamīd Riz̤ā, author.

Title

A handbook of Persian calligraphy and related arts / by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani ; translated by Rebecca Stengel ; edited, revised and extended by Shervin Farridnejad.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 109

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 109.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-366) and indexes.

Language

Selections translated from the Persian.

Added Author

Stengel, Rebecca, translator.

Farridnejad, Shervin, editor.

Translation of: Qilīchʹkhānī, Ḥamīd Riz̤ā. Farhang-i vāzhagān va iṣṭilāḥāt-i khvushnivīsī va hunarhā-yi vābastah.

Other Form:

Online version: Qilīchʹkhānī, Ḥamīd Riz̤ā. Handbook of Persian calligraphy and related arts Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004432895 (DLC) 2021034003

Other Standard Identifier

40030943285

Research Call Number

JFE 22-5244

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