...Chapter 2 interprets the baroque architecture of the exterior façade and interior décor of the tomb, including the calligraphy program on the walls, in particular the spectacular frieze running entirely around the interior walls, and including the Sacred Footprint of the Prophet exhibited here...

... ibn ʿAbdallāh al Qūnawī al Waladī scribe Mukhliß ibn ʿAbdallāh al Hindī illuminator naskh script paper tawqīʿ script text blocks waqf notes in manuscripts Wright Elaine calligraphy medallions roundels petal borders pigments palettes nasta ʿlīq script palmettes illuminated text pages...

... roundels naskh script petal borders Qur’an 1278 Qur’an 1314–15 Yaʿqūb ibn Ghāzī al Qūnawī illuminator al Zanjānī al ʿUthmānī Aḥmad ibn Saʿd ibn Mahdī ibn ʿAbd al Íamad scholar palmettes illuminated calligraphy strapwork tawqīʿ script thuluth script colophons finispieces frontispieces full page...

... disciple pigments palettes strapwork text blocks waqf notes in manuscripts calligraphy medallions roundels palmettes illuminated thuluth script Abū Bakr al Mujallidī al Mawlawī al Ḥamawī binder bookbinders craftsmen Ḥasan ibn ʿUthmān al Mawlawī scribe manuscripts mobility of craftsmen...

... for princes, historical chronicles and Sufi works, such as the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi, the author traces the development of calligraphy and illumination in late medieval Rum. She shows that the central Anatolian city of Konya, in particular, was a dynamic centre of artistic activity...

...Studies the military, palatial, and religious architecture of the later Baghdad Caliphate, with special emphasis on the Abbasid Palace and the Madrasa al-Mustansiriyya. Also discusses briefly the calligraphy and book painting produced in this period. ʿAbbasids Baghdad brick architecture building...

... in Hagia Sophia’s cavernous interior remain one of the most visually striking interventions from the renovations initiated by Sultan Abdülmecid and led by Gaspare Fossati in the mid-nineteenth century. This series of monumental panels—some of the largest examples of Islamic calligraphy in the world...

... and Qur’an juzʾs Raḥmatallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muqarrab scribe Rūmī Jalāl al Dīn Muḥammad Mevlevi patron saint Shams al Dīn Tabrīzī Sufi dervish calligraphy colophons naskh script palmettes illuminated tawqīʿ script text blocks thuluth script upper and lower panels illuminated Italians paper...

... calligraphy Fattal Simone handwriting Obrist Hans Ulrich performativity al Sayyab Badr Shakir al Saïd Shaker Hassan Ali Wijdan Cha Theresa Hak Kyung Dictee Documenta Hurufiyya movement Khatibi Abdelkebir experience migration Salih al Tayyeb Bartleby Trithemius Johannes authorship Bergvall...

... courtiers, and female harem staff in the garden graveyard around it. Enriched by archival documents, Ottoman chronicles, and the inscriptions on the gravestones, insights on life in the Ottoman palace in this era emerge though a spectrum of topics from architecture to poetry, calligraphy to smallpox...