The Forgotten Qur'ans of the Eastern Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties, 11th-12th Centuries CE
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 April 2026
- ISBN 9781399512411
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 244x170 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 210 illustrations (182 colour and 28 black & white) 700
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Short description:
The first in-depth examination of the earliest corpus of Qur’ans copied at the beginning of a transformative phase in the history of Qur’an production, at the eastern frontiers of the Islamic world.
MoreLong description:
The Ghaznavid and Ghurid Qur’ans (c. eleventh–Twelfth centuries CE), studied for the first time as a corpus, inform of how the Qur’an was copied at the beginning of a transformative period in the history of its production when paper, new scripts and the vertical format were adopted. As the book illustrates the ways in which local visual trends were shaped out of diachronic and synchronic multidirectional movement within a medieval landscape that was continuously in flux, it shifts the focus to the eastern frontiers of the Islamic world, reclaiming them as centres of cultural production. It is by contextualising the Qur’an’s materiality within the religious, social and political context that the book ‘rehumanises’ them offering an understanding of how the manuscripts were conceived, produced and used, up until our day.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Tables and Maps
Notes for Readers
Abbreviations
Series Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. The First Ghaznavid Qur’ans: Alliance of Power and Religion
2. A Sultan’s Qur’an: A New Genre
3. A Royal Ghaznavid Atelier
4. Ghurid Qur’ans in a Connected World
5. A Polycentric Landscape in Khurasan and Beyond
Conclusion: From Codicology to Cultural Materiality
Appendices
1. Script and Layout Studies of the Earliest Ghaznavid Qur’ans
2. List of Qur’ans from the Medieval Eastern Islamic World, c. 950–1250 ce
Glossary
List of References
Index
