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• The idea of a sacred text / Karen Armstrong
• Living with sacred Jewish texts / Everett Fox
• The poet in performance : the composition of the Qur'an / F.E. Peters
• The sacred texts
• Dissemination, division and diffference
• Establishing the sacred texts
• Illuminating the word in colours and gold
• Religious life : encountering the sacred
• Judaism glossary
• Christianity glossary
• Islam glossary.

This official exhibition catalogue illustrates and describes the exquisite and rare examples of Jewish, Christian and Muslim sacred texts from the Library's collections - considered to be one of the greatest in the world - alongside treasures on loan. It also contains essays by three leading scholars of religion that explore aspects of the three faiths - their development through history and their meaning in the world today. It includes essays by Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox and F.E. Peters. It includes contributions by Colin Baker, Kathleen Doyle, Scot McKendrick, Vrej Nersessian and Ilana Tahan.
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This official exhibition catalogue illustrates and describes the exquisite and rare examples of Jewish, Christian and Muslim sacred texts from the Library's collections - considered to be one of the greatest in the world - alongside treasures on loan. It also contains essays by three leading scholars of religion that explore aspects of the three faiths - their development through history and their meaning in the world today.
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• Foreword and acknowledgments / James Cuno
• Introduction / Harvey B. Plotnick
• Reflections of ceramic production in the eastern Islamic world, 800-1400 / Oya Pancaroğlu
• Catalogue
• A note on the content and style of inscriptions / Manijeh Bayani.

Renowned for their technical inventiveness, variety, and beauty, Islamic ceramics first began to flourish in the medieval period. This handsome book presents over one hundred works from the unparalleled Harvey B. Plotnick Collection and documents the extraordinary achievements in Islamic pottery from the 9th to 14th centuries. Focusing on three of the most important types of ceramics produced in Iraq and Iran----lusterware, minai, and underglaze painted wares----the book includes fascinating information on each of the works and an introductory essay that discusses the exalted status that ceramics held in the medieval Islamic world, the developments of various techniques in ceramic production, and the singular importance of this major collection. It also tells the particular story of the development of lusterware from the era of the Abbasids (9th--10th centuries), to the court of the Fatimid rulers in Egypt, to its remarkable artistic expression in Iran in the late 12th century.
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• Serving in the Holy Land : the "pearl" of the Franciscan Order's mission / Fr̀ère Stéphane Milovitch, Sara Cibin
• Christian pieces
• Jewish amuletic jewelry from the Muslim world / William Gross
• Jewish pieces
• Jewelry in Islamic lands / Rachel Hasson
• Islamic pieces
• Ceremonial pieces in three religions
• Bedouin jewelry makers in the St. Catherine's monastary region, Sinai
• Ofra Haza's jewelry
• Jewelry in diaglogue / Iris Fishof

"A new exhibition which explores artistic and cultural dialogues between the three monotheistic religions prominent in Jerusalem - Islam, Judaism and Christianity. From the museum's permanent collection, the exhibition displays a rich view of Islamic Jewlery and Artefacts dating back from the 7th century as well as the contemporary interpretations by 45 Israeli artists and jewellers."--Exhibition website

This title is a catalogue of Islamic works of art on display in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Khalili Collection in London, supported by authoritative essays by distinguished Islamic scholars.
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This lavishly illustrated volume takes the reader through a journey of some six centuries of development of the refined arts of calligraphy and illumination in the Islamic world. Much has been written on the dawn and early stages of the development of Arabic script and the position of calligraphy as an art form within Islamic civilization. This catalogue seeks to follow this story further into the golden age of Islamic calligraphy and its appreciation and patronage as the chief form of artistic expression from Islamic Spain to China. The works of art carefully selected for this catalogue, which accompanies an exhibition at the prestigious Sam Fogg gallery in London, follow the impact of the introduction of paper into the Islamic world and its effect on both the quality and the scope of the calligraphic art form. Paper - rather than parchment - allowed for inscriptions to be penned on a massive scale, and one of the highlights here is a monumental half line from the so-called 'Baysunghur' Qur'an, which was probably the largest Qur'an manuscript commissioned by an imperial court. The transition to paper also witnessed the codification of the 'six pens' or six recognized cursive scripts, which still hold. From this standardization of the script styles, lineages of recognized calligraphy masters were established. Calligraphers became hailed as artists and were highly valued at imperial courts. In the great age of the Ottoman Turks, the Safavid Persians and the Mughals in North India, there are numerous accounts of calligraphers moving between these Islamic empires by ever more lavish promises of patronage. The Pandnameh of Loqman, A book of advice of 1534-35 and made in Bukhara is one such example. The calligrapher Mahmud ibn Ishaq [al-Shahabi] was likely taken to Bukhara after the occupation of his native Herat in 1528-29, when 'Ubaidullah Khan, the Uzbek ruler, took many of the city's prized artists and calligraphers with him back to his capital. The position of prominence of calligraphy within the Islamic courts is highlighted by the development of the lavish arts of illumination, book binding and other aspects of the art of the book. The intricate designs which developed to decorate the margins and the interlinear space between the lines of text became a recognized art form in itself. Designs ranged from dazzling geometric compositions to scenes of nature populated by fabulous creatures. The combination of masterful calligraphy and radiant illumination produced princely works of art for the most discerning of imperial patrons. 'The Ball and Mallet' or halnama by Mahmud Ibn Muhammad 'Arifi al-Haravi, for example, is a Sufi text produced at the court of Shah Tahmasp c. 1540 and its wonderful illuminated borders are attributable to Aqa Mirak, one of the great Safavid court painters.
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