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Forgotten Qur'ans of the Eastern Islamic World

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Manuscripts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties, 11th-12th Centuries CE

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvAlya Karame

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-30
Mått170 x 244 x 27 mm
Vikt1 046 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Antal sidor400
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399512411

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Alya Karame is a Research Associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut. She specialises in Islamic art and material culture, with a focus on manuscript studies. In 2023, she was a fellow of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University to be later supported by the Paris Région award to pursue her research at the Institut des civilisations at the Collège de France. Her work has been supported by numerous grants, including the Arab Funds for Arts and Culture and the Andrew Mellon foundation (2019-2020). She was at the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford, the recipient of the Barakat Trust award (2018-2019) and prior to that she joined the Kunsthistorisches Institut research program in Florence Connecting Art Histories in the Museum and was based at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin (2017-2019). Karame obtained her PhD in 2018 in Islamic Art History from the University of Edinburgh and her MA in History of Art & Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Tables and MapsNotes for ReadersAbbreviationsSeries Editor’s ForewordPrefaceIntroduction1. The First Ghaznavid Qur’ans: Alliance of Power and Religion2. A Sultan’s Qur’an: A New Genre3. A Royal Ghaznavid Atelier4. Ghurid Qur’ans in a Connected World5. A Polycentric Landscape in Khurasan and BeyondConclusion: From Codicology to Cultural MaterialityAppendices1. Script and Layout Studies of the Earliest Ghaznavid Qur’ans2. List of Qur’ans from the Medieval Eastern Islamic World, c. 950–1250 ceGlossaryList of ReferencesIndex

The Forgotten Qur’ans is a compelling survey of aesthetics in the service of piety that offers a transformative perspective on calligraphy and the material Qur’an. It illuminates a neglected tradition of artistic creativity in the book arts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid sultanates of Afghanistan, no less dynamic and innovative than that witnessed in their spectacular architectural projects. Challenging the hegemony enjoyed by a few select cities in standard histories of Islamic art, the book questions established notions of centre and periphery, inviting us to reconsider their legacies to the field.