Fini les coufiques, passons aux calligraphies cursives 🖋
Les styles #cursifs sont dans l’ensemble, des écritures de chancellerie qui ont été normalisés en 6 styles au début du XIe siècle par Ibn Muqla:
Naskh, Muhaqqaq, Thuluth, Tauqi, Riqa’, Rayhani.
#islamicart#calligraphy
A view of the city gates to the ancient City of Kashgar, East Turkestan.
Kashgar is rich in culture and played a key role in the Silk Road trade.
Life and architecture of Kashgar is not very different than what you would find in Central Asia or northern Afghanistan.
Stunning square prayer book including Asma' Muhammad (Muhammad's Names) and Faṣl al-kayfiyya (chapters on how to pray on weekdays), from Ivory Coast, probably 19th century. [Paris, BnF Arabe 6869]
[EN DIRECT] de l’atelier du programme INHA @callfront_paris dédié aux traditions manuscrites d’Afrique de l’Ouest.
📹 La captation sera mise en ligne dans les jours à venir sur notre chaîne YouTube.
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Nouvel article sur notre blog !
Retour sur Les routes de Samarcande, à l’Institut du Monde Arabe, 23 novembre 2022 – 4 juin 2023
https://t.co/hej2jNauhu
#OpenAccess#Talisman#Amulets
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context: Transmission, Efficacy and Collections
eds. Marcela A. Garcia Probert, Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Brill 2022
Direct Access PDF ⬇️
https://t.co/1nE8RPsh6l
An unusual Somali Qur’an section, copied in a script quite distinct from the majuscule Arabic scripts used either along the Swahili coast or in West Africa, carefully but austerely written by an unnamed holy man in the town of Afgoi in the late 19th or early 20th century. 1/
#Adab | 📷Le Maghreb-Orient des livres devient Adab, sous la direction de l'iReMMO. Retrouvez-nous à la @maisonpoesie1 les 8, 9 et 10 décembre pour trois jours de rencontres et d'échanges dédiés aux littératures contemporaines du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient.
📣Conférence "Le #Coran et ses manuscrits anciens" par François Déroche. Mercredi 11 octobre 2023, 9h-13h, MMSH/Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme, salle Georges Duby, Aix-en-Provence : https://t.co/hQ9cP0HnXL
#Recrutement Le GIS MOMM et l'@iismm_ehess recrutent un ou une stagiaire pour la coordination des prix de thèse 2024. Candidatures à adresser avant le 02/10/2023 ! https://t.co/sHSuwUZEC6
A rare sighting in HMML's collections: a *bound* West African manuscript.
Collection of the Mamma Haidara Library, Timbuktu (SAV BMH 27179): https://t.co/UEWUnXsbp5
See all #MaliManuscript stories from HMML catalogers Paul Naylor and Ali Diakite: https://t.co/lIesFUpc5t
Jali, an exquisite Indo-Islamic & Mughal architectural feature, is a finely crafted lattice stone screen with intricate perforated patterns
Meaning gauze or net in Urdu, Jali combines outward vision with privacy, reflecting the beauty of modesty in Islamic traditions
A thread…
In the Kufic script, the letter dāl has a basically identical shape to the kāf, the only difference being that the dāl does not connect to the left.
#ArabicLetterofTheWeek
View and details of the colorful blue and gold ceiling of the "Tilyâ Kori" ("decorated with gold" in Persian) Madrassah in Samarkand.
Picture by Salvador Bakhi.