The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections
Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic Manuscript Tradition explores this aspect of Islamic history with studies of the materials and tools of literate culture, including pens, inks, and papers, Qur’ans, Persian and Mughal illustrated manuscripts, Ottoman devotional works, cartographical manuscripts, printed books, and Islamic erotica. Seven essays present new scholarship on a wide...
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Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic Manuscript Tradition explores this aspect of Islamic history with studies of the materials and tools of literate culture, including pens, inks, and papers, Qur'ans, Persian and Mughal illustrated manuscripts, Ottoman devotional works, cartographical manuscripts, printed books, and Islamic erotica. Seven essays present new scholarship on a wide range of topics including collection, miniaturization, illustrated devotional books, the history of the printing press in Islamic lands, and the presence and function of erotic paintings. This beautifully produced volume includes 111 color illustrations and provides a valuable new resource for students and scholars of Islamic art.
1 Introduction: Islamic Book Arts in Indiana University Collections Christiane Gruber Gruber, Christiane 22 Ruth E. Adomeit: An Ambassador for Miniature Books Janet Rauscher Rauscher, Janet 523 Between Amulet and Devotion: Islamic Miniature Books in the Lilly Library Heather Coffey Coffey, Heather 784 A Pious Cure-All: The Ottoman Illustrated Prayer Manual in the Lilly Library Christiane Gruber Gruber, Christiane 1165 Ibrahim Muteferrika and the Age of the Printed Manuscript Yasemin Gencer Gencer, Yasemin 1546 An Ottoman View of the World: The Kitab Cihannuma and Its Cartographic Contexts Emily Zoss Zoss, Emily 1947 The Lilly Shamshir Khani in a Franco-Sikh Context: A Non-Islamic "Islamic" Manuscript Brittany Payeur Payeur, Brittany 2208 An Amuletic Manuscript: Baraka and Nyama in a Sub-Saharan African Prayer Manual Kitty Johnson Johnson, Kitty 250Bibliography 273
\ Choice"This handsome, large-format volume presents eight essays written in conjunction with an exhibition of the rich collection of Islamic books at Indiana University.... This book is a pleasure to hold and to read.... Highly recommended." —Choice\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Religious & Theological Intormation"It is Gruber's scholarship that makes this book a desirable addition to a reference or circulating collection.... Her introductory essay could serve as course reading for classes on art history or Islamic culture and civilization; it stands alone as a readable, attractive, and extensively footnoted summary of the distinctive artistic character of Islamic book arts thorugh the centuries." —Journal of Religious & Theological Intormation, 9:3, 2010\ \ \ Journal of the American Oriental Society"Collected studies often are uneven and inconsistent affairs, reflecting the distinctive perspectives and expository idiosyncrasies of their various contributors. Not so here, however, where tight editorial control was clearly exercised, and epistolary style uniformly regulated.... Besides simultaneously enriching the corpus of Islamic books and the study of Islamic book arts, this handsome volume does Indiana University proud." —Journal of the American Oriental Society\ \ \ \ \ Journal Of Oriental And African Studies"[T]his is a useful source material on the development of Islamic book art from the 9th to the 20th centuries in different parts of the world, and will be an essential information tool for all those interested in the Islamic artistic and aesthetic traditions, specifically in the art of the book which is a highly prized item of Islamic material culture." —Journal of Oriental and African Studies\ \
