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Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy : History, Theory, and Aesthetics /
"Muthanna, also known as mirror writing, is a compelling style of Islamic calligraphy composed of a source text and its mirrored image placed symmetrically on a horizontal or vertical axis. This style elaborates on various scripts such as Kufi, naskh, and muqahhaq through compositional arrangem...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Axes
- Part I. A history of mirror writing. 1. Perspectives: previous scholarship on mirror writing
- 2. Foundations: the practice of mirror writing
- 3. Orientations: reversed and repeated writing in non-Arabic and Arabic scripts
- 4. Convergences: mirror writing in Greek and Arabic
- 5. Diffractions: mirror writing in Arabic
- Part II. A theory of mirror writing. 6. Reflections: mirrors in Islamic studies
- 7. Illuminations: a new discourse on mirror writing
- 8. Directions: the single-letter muthanna
- 9. Receptions: multiletter and multiword muthannas
- 10. Projections: calligraphic nazires and mobility
- Conclusion: Refractions
- Works consulted
- Index.