Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy : History, Theory, and Aesthetics /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akın, Esra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Islamic calligraphy in art.
Islamic calligraphy.
Calligraphy, Arabic.
ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious
Calligraphie arabe.
Calligraphie islamique dans l'art.
Calligraphie islamique > Histoire.
Mirror-writing > In art.
Islamic calligraphy > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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