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Porter, Venetia(författare)
Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum / Venetia Porter ; with special assistance from Robert Hoyland and Alexander Morton ; with contributions from Shailendra Bhandare, and scientific analysis by Janet Ambers ...
Förlag, utgivningsår, omfång ...
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London :British Museum,c2011
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viii, 202 s. :ill. ;30 cm
Nummerbeteckningar
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LIBRIS-ID:12468248
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ISBN:978-0-86159-160-2
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ISBN:0-86159-160-7
Klassifikation
Serie
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The British Museum research publication,1747-3640 ;160
Anmärkningar
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194).
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Innehåll: Seal practice in the Islamic world --Terminology --Byzantine practice and influence --Islam: the Prophet's seal --The diwan al-khatim: the 'office of the seal' and the Sasanian legacy --Sasanian royal seals --The relationship between Sasanian and early Islamic seals --Seals of the caliphs as described by medieval authors --Early Islamic lead and bronze seals: form and function --The study of lead seals --The terms 'kura' and 'iqlim' --Seals on Arabic papyri and clay discs --Clay tokens or receipts --Personal seals: literary references --Figural representation on early seals --From the tenth century: the 'alama and ink seals --The Safavid period: seal impressions, royal and personal seals --Indo-Muslim seals of the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries --Features of Indo-Muslim seals --Seal practice under the Ottomans --Forgery --Seal engravers --Parallels between coins and seals --Seals and amulets from archaeological sites --Style and content of the early seals --Definition of scripts --Epigraphy and dating --Grammatical and orthographic features --Rhyming assonantal inscriptions and parallels with coins --Ornamentation --Shapes and mounts --Names --Phrases --Later seals --Provenance --Dates on seals --Scope and arrangement of the catalogue --Arabic --Recording the inscription --Trransliteration --Qur'an and Hadith references --The British Museum collection --Table 1Epigraphic Styles on Seals --Table 2Ornamentation --Table 3Shapes and Mounts --1.Clay, bronze and lead sealings c. eighth-tenth centuries --Clay sealings --Bronze sealing --Lead sealings from Syria, Palestine and North Africa --Eastern Islamic world: Abbasid and Buyid sealings --Dulafid sealings --2.Names --3.Names and phrases --al-i'tisam billah ('seeking refuge in God') --al-thiqa billah ('trust in God') --al-tawakkul 'ala Allah ('reliance on God') --dhikr al-mawt ('remembrance of death') --lillah/billah ('by' or 'for God') --shukr lillah ('thanks to God') --waliAllah ('the friend of God') --The basmala and the shahada --al-'izzatu lillah ('glory to God') and various phrases --4.Phrases --Verses from the Qur'an --Allah rabbi, Allah nasihi ('Cod is my Lord and my counsel') --Phrases from the root amana and sabara --The basmala ('in the name of God') --billah/lillah ('by, through, or unto God') and other phrases --tub na lillah ('we have repented to God') or sha'a Allah ('God wills') --ta'ala Allah ('God is exalted' or 'God is ever almighty') --tawakkul tukfa ('rely [on God]'; 'trust or confidence [in God] will suffice you') --al-hamdu lillah ('Praise be to God') --hasbi Allah ('God is sufficient for me') --al-haya' min al-iman ('modesty is [a part of] faith') --al-hukm lillah ('judgement belongs to God') --li kull ajal kitab ('for each period a book is revealed') --la ilaha illa Allah ('there is no god but God') --masha'a Allah ('as God wills', and associated phrases) --ma tawfiqi illa billah ('and my success can only come from God') --man l'tasam billah ('whoever holds firmly to God') --man katama sirrahu ('he who keeps his secret') --al-mawt ('death') --al-mulk lillah ('sovereignty belongs to God') --nawal allah ('gift from God') --subhan Allah ('glory to God') --al-sabr ('patience') --al-'izz/al-'izza lillah ('glory / honour / might / power belongs to God') --'inayat al-irada ('watchfulness of God's will') --al-wafa ('loyalty') --al-jalal lillah ('glory belongs to God') --Single words --ihfaz ('guard or preserve') --al-'ala or al-'ali ('nobility 'or 'the most high') --Phrases with makkana ('establish, enable, give strength') --Various phrases and supplications (du'a') --Muhammad and 'All --The Twelve Imams --St George and the dragon --Poetic texts --Uncertain phrases --5.Re-engraved seals and seals with Arabic inscriptions on both sides --Re-engraved ancient seals --Seals with Arabic inscriptions engraved on both sides --6.Seals c. fourteenth century and later --Seals with personal names and benedictory inscriptions or names of the Fourteen Immacutates --Seals with names alone --Seals inscribed in Persian --7.Dated seals --Stone dated seals --Stone seals with only two or three numerals --Brass dated seals --Brass seals with only two or three numerals --8.Indo-Muslim and miscellaneous seals --A.Servants of the court and the Emperor --Seals of officials (the phrase banda-i dargah + regnal year or regnal yearon its own) --Name and regnal year only --B.Dated seals, officials or private individuals arranged chronologically --Hijra and AD dates --Three numerals only --Vikram Samvat era --Undated seals --C.Forgeries of royal seals --D.Seals made for Europeans and officials serving in India --E.Miscellaneous seals: foreign residents of Iran --9.Amulets: Introduction --Positive and negative amulets --Amulets and the place of magic in Islam --The relationship between amulet maker and client --Magicalliterature --Inscriptions on amulets --The importance of the Qur'an on amulets --The 'Names of God' --Arrangement of this part of the catalogue --Table 4The Abjad System --Table 5The Names of God --Table 6The Fourteen Immaculates --9.Catalogue of Amulets --'Names of God' --The basmala and the shahada --Verses from the Qur'an --Short passages from the Qur'an --The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus --a'udhu bi-jalal Allah ('I seek protection in the glory of God' etc.) --Supplications to God --God, the Prophet Muhammad and his family, and the Twelve Imams --The Fourteen Immaculates --A group of gold amulets --Three cameo glass amulets --Dated amulets --Letters, symbols, numbers, strange words, magic squares and the abjad system --Magical squares --The 'mysterious' letters of the Qur'an --The seven magical signs --The angels --Amulets with engraving errors: authentic or not? --Brass amulets inscribed in negative --Spinning rings --Talismanic discs and the 'lunette script' --Magical words, mixed numbers and letters --'Linear Kuflc' --Rock crystal seals inscribed in 'linear Kufic' --Lions and scorpions --Identification of the Materials of the Seals and Amulets /Janet Ambers --Introduction --Methodology --Materials --Bibliography --Methods of Engraving /Nigel Meeks --Introduction and methods of examination --Observations and Interpretations --Concluding remarks --Bibliography --Bibliography --Online references --Concordances --Concordance of catalogue numbers and British Museum registration numbers: seals --Concordance of catalogue numbers and British Museum registration numbers: amulets --Concordance of British Museum registration numbers with catalogue numbers.
Ämnesord och genrebeteckningar
Biuppslag (personer, institutioner, konferenser, titlar ...)
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Bhandare, Shailendra(författare)
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Hoyland, Robert G.,1966-(författare)
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Morton, A. H.(författare)
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Ambers, Janet(författare)
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British Museum
(utgivare)
Seriebiuppslag
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The British Museum research publication,1747-3640 ;160
Bibliotekens lokala klassifikation, anmärkningar och ämnesord
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ASigillIslamiska länder
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AArabiska inskrifter
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APersiska inskrifter
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- 110473 (British Museum pbl)
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