Kufic Stone Inscription Culture, Script, and Graphics

Download or read book Kufic Stone Inscription Culture, Script, and Graphics written by S. M. V. Mousavi Jazayeri and published by Blautopf Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book studies the script, art, and culture of the early Arabic Kufic calligraphy. It presents around hundred historical stone inscriptions, coins, and manuscripts from early-Islamic Persia. In their book, the primary author and famed Iranian early Kufic expert and calligrapher, S.M.V. Mousavi Jazayeri, and his fellow co-authors read and analyze with meticulous detail the calligraphy, script, and art work of thirty-seven Kufic gravestone inscriptions, mainly from the Yazd providence of Iran. The carefully-selected inscriptional sample in this book illustrates the remarkable power and versatility of this early script, and the extent of the global role played by it in shaping societies and cultures of a vast area extending from China to Spain.