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Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy: Selected Bibliography


Note: Sources cited frequently in the Selections of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Calligraphy follow below. The abbreviated form of the citation that is used in the individual descriptions of the calligraphy pieces precedes each full bibliographic citation. The abbreviated form of the citations is not used in this site's introductory essays.

Sources not listed in this bibliography are cited fully where they appear in either the descriptions that accompany the images or in the introductory essays.

al-Baydawi. 1330/ 1911-12.

al-Baydawi.  Al-Tafsir al-Musammah Anwar al-Tanzil wa Asrar al-Ta’wil; Ed. cAbd al-Rahman Muhammad. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Gharbiyyah al-Kubra, 1330/1911-12.

Akimushkin, Oleg. 1996.

Akimushkin, Oleg. The St. Petersburg Muraqqac: Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures of the 16th-18th Centuries and Specimens of Persian Calligraphy of cImad al-Hasani, 2nd ed. Milan: ARCH/Electa, 1996.

Alparslan, Ali. 2004.

Alparslan, Ali. Osmanlı Hat Sanatı Tarihi, 2nd ed. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2004.

Al-Bahnasi, Afif. 1995.

Al-Bahnasi, cAfif. Mucjam Mustalahat al-Khatt al-cArabi w-al-Khattatin. Beirut: Maktabat Lubnan, 1995.

Başar, Fuat and Yavuz Tiryaki. 2004

Başar, Fuat and Yavuz Tiryaki. Turkish Art of Marbling. Istanbul: Gözen Yayınları, 2000.

Bayani, Mahdi. 1358/1939.

Bayani, Mahdi. Ahval-i Asar-i Khushnivisan, 4 vols. Tehran: Tehran University Press, 1358/1939.

Bayani, Manijeh, Anna Contadini and Tim Stanley. 1999.

Bayani, Manijeh, Anna Contadini, and Tim Stanley. The Decorated Word: Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th Centuries; Ed. Julian Raby, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 4. Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1999.

Beit Al Qur’an

Beit Al Qur’an. Manama, Bahrain: Oriental Press, 1996.

Binark, İsmet. 1994

Binark, İsmet. Osmanlı Fermanları/Ottoman Fermans, 2nd ed. Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık, Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Osmanlı Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı, 1994.

Blair, Sheila. 1998.

Blair, Sheila. Islamic Inscriptions. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Blair, Sheila. 1986.

Blair, Sheila. “Legibility Versus Decoration in Islamic Epigraphy: the Case of Interlacing.” World Art, Themes of Unity in Diversity: XXVIth International Congress of the History of Art: 329-34; Ed. Irving Lavin. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.

Dejong, Frederick. 1992.

DeJong, Frederick. “Pictorial Art of the Bektashi Order.” In The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey: 228-41; Ed. Raymond Lifchez. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1992.

Dejong, Frederick. 1989

DeJong, Frederick. “The Iconography of Bektashiism: a Survey of Themes and Symbolism in Clerical Costume, Liturgical Objects, and Pictorial Art.” Manuscripts of the Middle East 4 (1989): 7-29.

Derman, M. Uğur. 2002.

Derman, M. Uğur. Sabancı Üniversitesi, Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi: Hat Koleksiyonundan Seçmeler. Istanbul: Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, 2002.

Derman, M. Uğur. 1984.

Derman, M. Uğur. “Kaybettiğimiz Müzehhib Muhsin Demironat.” Lâle Dergisi 3 (1984): 12-20.

Déroche, François. 1992.

Déroche, François. The Abbasid Tradition: Qur’ans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries AD; Ed. Julian Raby, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 1. Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1992.

Diba, Layla with Maryam Ekhtiar (eds.). 1998.

Diba, Layla with Maryam Ekhtiar (eds.). Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925. London: I. B. Tauris Publishers in association with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998.

Dickson, Martin and Stuart Cary Welch. 1981.

Dickson, Martin and Stuart Cary Welch. The Houghton Shahnameh. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press, 1981.

Gacek, Adam. 1989.

Gacek, Adam. “The Diploma of the Egyptian Calligrapher Hasan al-Rushdi." Manuscripts of the Middle East 4 (1989): 44-55.

Günüç, Fevzi. 1999.

Günüç, Fevzi. Mevlânâ Müzesi, Abdülbâkî Gölpinarlı Kütüphanesi Levhalar Kataloğu. Konya: T. C. Kültür Bakanlığı, 1999.

Gray, Basil. 1979.

Gray, Basil. “The School of Bukhara to c. 1550.” In The Arts of the Book in Central Asia, 14-16th Centuries: 248-72; Eds. Basil Gray et al. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Press; Paris: UNESCO, 1979.

Huart, Clément. 1972.

Huart, Clément. Les Calligraphes et les Miniaturistes de l’Orient Musulman, 2nd ed. Osnabrück: Otto Zeller Verlag, 1972 (reprint of 1908 edition).

James, David. 1992a.

James, David. The Master Scribes: Qur’ans of the 10th to 14th Centuries; Ed. Julian Raby, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 2. Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1992.

James, David. 1992b.

James, David. After Timur: Qur’ans of the 15th and 16th Centuries; Ed. Julian Raby, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 3. Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1992.

James, David. 1988.

James, David. Qur’ans of the Mamluks. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988.

Kühnel, Ernst. 1986.

Kühnel, Ernst. Islamische Schriftkunst, 3rd ed. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1986.

Leach, Linda York. 1998.

Leach, Linda York. Paintings from India; Ed. Julian Raby, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 8. London: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lentz, Thomas and Glenn Lowry. 1989.

Lentz, Thomas and Glenn Lowry. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Library of Congress. 2002.

(No author). Near Eastern Collections: An Illustrated Guide. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 2002.

Lings, Martin. 2004.

Lings, Martin. Splendours of Qur’anic Calligraphy and Illumination. London: Thames and Hudson, 2004.

Lings, Martin and Yasin Hamid Safadi. 1976.

Lings, Martin and Yasin Hamid Safadi. The Qur’an: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Qur’an Manuscripts at the British Library, 3 April-15 August 1976. London: World of Islam Publishing Co. Ltd for the British Library, 1976.

Lowry, Glenn and Milo C. Beach (eds.). 1988.

Lowry, Glenn and Milo C. Beach (eds.). An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.

Mandel Khan, Gabriel. 2001.

Mandel Khan, Gabriel. Arabic Script: Styles, Variants, and Calligraphic Adaptations. New York: Abbeville Press, 2001.

Marchand, Valère-Marie. 2002.

Marchand, Valère-Marie. Les Ouvriers du Signe: Calligraphie en Culture Musulmane. Courbevoie: ACR, 2002.

Mehdi Zadeh, Mostafa and Husain Razzaghi. 1369/1950.

Mehdi Zadeh, Mostafa and Husain Razzaghi. Selected Calligraphy from the Central Library of Astane Qods Razavi/Muraqqacat-i Kitabkhana-yi Markazi-yi Astan-i Quds-i Rezavi. Mashhad: Astan-i Quds-i Rezavi, 1369/1950.

Meisami, Julie Scott. 1995.

Meisami, Julie Scott. The Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

MET. 1987.

Welch, Stuart Cary (introduction). The Metropolitan Museum of Art: the Islamic World. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.

MTIA. 2002.

Daniş Baykan (ed.). Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art. Istanbul: Akbank, 2002.

Al-Moraekhi, Moshalleh. 2002.

Al-Moraekhi, Moshalleh. “A New Perspective on the Phenomenon of Mirror-Image Writing in Arabic Calligraphy.” In Studies on Arabia in Honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 14: 123-33; Eds. J. F. Healey and V. Porter. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 2002.

Özönder, Hasan. 2003.

Özönder, Hasan. Ansiklopedik Hat ve Tezhip Sanatları: Deyimleri, Terimleri Sözlüğü. Konya: Sebat Ofset Matbaacılık, 2003.

Pal, Pratapaditya. 1993.

Pal, Pratapaditya. Indian Painting: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, vol. 1 (1000-1700). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.

Porter, Yves. 1994.

Porter, Yves. Painters, Paintings, and Books: an Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12th-19th Centuries; Trans. S. Butani. New Delhi: Manohar, 1994.

Porter, Yves. 1988.

Porter, Yves. “Kaqaz-e abri, notes sur la technique de la marbrure.” Studia Iranica 17/2 (1988): 207-23.

Qadi Ahmad. 1959.

Qadi Ahmad. Calligraphers and Painters, a Treatise by Qadi Ahmad, son of Mir Munshi, circa A.H. 1015/A.D. 1606, Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers 3/2; Trans. Vladimir Minorsky. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1959.

Qur’an. 2001.

cAli, cAbdullah Yusuf. The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an, 10th ed.  Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 2001.

Rado, Şevket. 1983.

Rado, Şevket. Türk Hattatları, XV. Yüzyıldan Günümüze Kadar Gelmiş Ünlü Hattatların Hayatları ve Yazılarından Örnekler. Istanbul: Yayın Matbaacılık Ticaret, 1983.

Rahman, Pares Islam Syed Mustafizur. 1979.

Rahman, Pares Islam Syed Mustafizur. Islamic Calligraphy in Medieval India. Dacca: University Press and Bangladesh: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, 1979.

Robinson, Basil (ed.). 1976.

Robinson, Basil (ed.). Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book (the Keir Collection). London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

Rypka, Jan. 1968.

Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian Literature. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1968.

Safadi, Yasin. 1979.

Safadi, Yasin. Islamic Calligraphy. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1979.

Safwat, Nabil. 1996.

Safwat, Nabil. The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries; Ed. Julian Raby, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 5. Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1996.

Salameh, Khader. 2001.

Salameh, Khader. The Qur’an Manuscripts in the al-Haram al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. Reading, UK: Garnet; Paris: UNESCO, 2001.

Schimmel, Annemarie. 1984.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Calligraphy and Islamic Culture. New York: New York University Press, 1984.

Selim, George Dimitri. Spring 1979.

Selim, George Dimitri. “Arabic Calligraphy in the Library of Congress.” The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 36/2 (Spring 1979): 140-77.

Serin, Mühittin. 2003.

Serin, Mühittin. Hat Sanatı ve Meşhur Hattatlar, 2nd ed. Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı, 2003.

Sertoğlu, Midhat. 1975.

Sertoğlu, Midhat. Osmanlı Türklerinde Tuğra: Başlangıcı ve Gelişmesi. Istanbul: Doğan Kardeş, 1975.

Simpson, M. Shreve. 1993.

Simpson, M. Shreve. “The Making of Manuscripts and the Workings of the Kitab-khana in Safavid Iran." In The Artist's Studio, Studies in the History of Art 38: 104-16; Ed. Peter Lukehart. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993.

Soudavar, Abolala. 1992.

Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

Tavoosi, M. 1989.

Tavoosi, M. Ganjine-yé-Honar: A Selection of Persian Calligraphy and Illumination. Shiraz: Navid Publications, 1987.

TvIEM (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi).

TvIEM. In Pursuit of Excellence: Works of Art from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul. Istanbul: Ahmet Ertuğ, 1993.

Umur, Suha. 1980.

Umur, Suha. Osmanlı Padişah Tuğraları. Istanbul: Cem Yayınevi, 1980.

Welch, Stuart Cary, et al. 1987.

Welch, Stuart Cary, et al. The Emperor’s Album: Images of Mughal India. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.

Zakariya, Mohamed. 1991.

Zakariya, Mohamed. “Islamic Calligraphy: a Technical Overview.” In Brocade of the Pen: the Art of Islamic Writing: 1-17; Ed. Carol Garrett Fisher. East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991.

Zakariya, Mohamed.  1979.

Zakariya, Mohamed. The Calligraphy of Islam: Reflections on the State of the Art. Washington D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1979.


Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy >> Selected Bibliography