The image of the Word
Subtitle: a study of Quranic verses in Islamic architecture
By: Erica Cruikshank Dodd and Shereen Khairallah.
Contributors: Khairallah, Shereen.
Publisher: American University of Beirut
Published: 1981
Place of publication: [Beirut]
Language: eng
Subjects: Koran -- Quotations -- Illustrations.; Architectural inscriptions -- Islamic countries.; Islamic calligraphy.
Description: Volume I is designed to be read by itself, but it presents the arguments and conclusions drawn from the Indexes in Volume II. Volume II presents the documentation for the arguments: a collection of published inscriptions decorating Islamic monuments. They are organized under three headings: 1) according to the number of the Sura and verse; 2) according to the geographical area, the city and the building where the verses occur; 3) according to the location within the buildings, over doors, for example, or on minarets.
Notes: Bibliography: v. 2, p. 319-325.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Text and photographs; title: v. 2. Indexes.