Isbn: 9780500282946 - the Splendour of Islamic Calligraphy (9 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: acceptable.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 239 pages, notes, bibliography, color and b&w illustrations. Mild bends to the corners, light smoke odor with moderately darkened and soiled edges. Text clean, binding firm.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. Revised Edition. 239 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with minimal wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2001 first edition large format paperback. With chapters on the role of calligraphy in architecture and contemporary painting, this edition provides a comprehensive survey of the subject from its earliest origins to today. Examples of scripts, including kufic, thuluth, naskhi and maghribi, are shown in a series of photographs which reproduce manuscript pages, paintings and other works of art.In excellent clean condition with no writing, marks or tears. Covers clean and shiny, small ex price label to rear.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 239 pp., 232 illustrations, 98 in colour, publisher's original pictorial wrappers, notes, biblio, copy in mint condition. Calligraphy, the art which combines visual image and written word, is perhaps at its most brilliant in the arts of Islam. This is clearly evident on the pages of this book, widely acclaimed on first publication as the most sumptuous and beautiful study ever produced on the subject. Now available again, it combines numerous illustrations of Arabic scripts with an informative background history and a thorough analysis of the geometrical and ornamental principles involved in the calligraphic art.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Calligraphy, the art that combines visual image and written word is perhaps at its most brilliant in the Islamic world. Islamic calligraphy takes its inspiration from the Muslim belief in the divine origin of Arabic writing. Its use in sacred and official texts has given rise to a calligraphic tradition that has flourished for over 1000 years, not only in manuscript decoration but in architecture, sculpture, ceramics and paintings. With chapters on the role of calligraphy in architecture and contemporary painting, this edition provides a comprehensive survey of the subject from its earliest origins to today. Examples of scripts, including kufic, thuluth, naskhi and maghribi, are shown in a series of photographs which reproduce manuscript pages, paintings and other works of art.…