Geometry in Gold: An Illuminated Mamluk Qur'an Section

by Marcus Fraser

This book is devoted to a monumental and superbly illuminated very large early fourteenth-century Mamluk Qur'an in muhaqqaq script. It constitutes the final part (Juz' 30) of a superb two-volume Qur'an of which the first volume is preserved in the National Museum in Damascus while the second volume, from which the present section originates, is widely dispersed. Remarkably, here the final part of the Qur'an is reunited with its magnificent and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0954901428
• ISBN13: 9780954901424
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 11.7" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher