The art of the Qurʼan :
treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts /
Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig ; with contributions by François Déroche, Edhem Eldem, Jane McAuliffe, Sana Mirza, and Zeren Tanındı.

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Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi
Related Names
McAuliffe, Jane Dammen.
Eldem, Edhem.
Tanındı, Zeren.
Déroche, François.
Rettig, Simon, writer of text.
Farhad, Massumeh, writer of text.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Language(s)
English
Published
©2016
Washington, DC : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, [2016]
Subjects
Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi.
Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi > Exhibitions.
Qurʼan.
Coran > Illustrations > Expositions.
Qurʼan > Manuscripts > Exhibitions.
Qurʼan > Illustrations > Exhibitions.
Manuscripts.
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
RELIGION > Prayerbooks > Islamic.
RELIGION > Islam > Koran & Sacred Writings.
ART > Middle Eastern.
Enluminure islamique > Turquie > İstanbul > Expositions.
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts > Turkey > Istanbul > Exhibitions.
Turkey > Istanbul.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Summary
This story unfolds in Qur'ans from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, the companion publication to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's groundbreaking exhibition, the first major presentation of Qur'ans in the United States. The book's authors describe the formation of this one-of-a-kind collection and the history of TIEM, whose centuries-old records on patrons, calligraphers, illuminators, and provenance allow us to create "biographies" detailing the production of the Qur'ans in the exhibition. Essays address the Qur'an as a written text--from content and organization to the elaborate calligraphy and illuminated designs that transformed the volumes into beautiful artworks. Qur'ans also includes in-depth descriptions of some seventy works from TIEM and the Smithsonian's Sackler and Freer Galleries. It features full-page, color images of the earliest known Qur'an folios and manuscripts from the Umayyad and Abbasid Near East (7th-10th century), Seljuk Iran and Anatolia (12th century), the Mongol Il-Khanid and Timurid empires and Mamluk Cairo (14th and 15th centuries), Safavid and Ottoman empires (16th and 17th centuries) as well as a number of mosque furnishings, such as Qur'an boxes and stands. Most of these works have rarely, if ever, been published. --Publisher.
Note
Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2016-February 20, 2017.
Physical Description
382 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 33 cm
ISBN
0934686408
9780934686402
1588345785
9781588345783
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