Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum
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London
British Museum Press
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | Research publication / British Museum <London>
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British Museum / Catalogs
> British Museum
> Geschichte 700-1920
> Seals (Numismatics) / Islamic countries / Catalogs
> Amulets / Islamic countries / Catalogs
> Inscriptions, Persian / Catalogs
> Inscriptions, Arabic / Catalogs
> Islam
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> Arabisch
> Persisch
> Arabische Staaten
> Iran
> Islamische Staaten
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | "In this catalogue are gathered more than 800 seals, sealings and amulets inscribed in Arabic and Persian" (page vii). - Compliments the 1985 publication by A.H. Morton entitled: Catalogue of early Islamic glass stamps in the British Museum Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) Seal practice in the Islamic world -- Terminology -- Byzantine practice and influence -- Islam: the Prophet's seal -- The diwan al-khatim: the 'office of the seal' and the Sasanian legacy -- Sasanian royal seals -- The relationship between Sasanian and early Islamic seals -- Seals of the caliphs as described by medieval authors -- Early Islamic lead and bronze seals: form and function -- The study of lead seals -- The terms 'kura' and 'iqlim' -- Seals on Arabic papyri and clay discs -- Clay tokens or receipts -- Personal seals: literary references -- Figural representation on early seals -- From the tenth century: the 'alama and ink seals -- The Safavid period: seal impressions, royal and personal seals -- Indo-Muslim seals of the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries -- Features of Indo-Muslim seals -- Seal practice under the Ottomans -- Forgery -- Seal engravers -- Parallels between coins and seals -- Seals and amulets from archaeological sites -- Style and content of the early seals -- Definition of scripts -- Epigraphy and dating -- Grammatical and orthographic features -- Rhyming assonantal inscriptions and parallels with coins -- Ornamentation -- Shapes and mounts -- Names -- Phrases -- Later seals -- Provenance -- Dates on seals -- Scope and arrangement of the catalogue -- Arabic -- Recording the inscription -- Transliteration -- Qur'an and Ḥadīth references -- The British Museum collection -- Epigraphic styles on seals -- Ornamentation -- Shapes and mounts -- Clay, bronze and lead sealings -- eighth-tenth centuries -- Clay sealings -- Bronze sealing -- Lead sealings from Syria, Palestine and North Africa -- Eastern Islamic world: Abbasid and Buyid sealings -- Dulafid sealings -- Names -- Names and phrases -- al-īʿṭiṣām billāh ('seeking refuge in God') -- al-thiqa billāh ('trust in God') -- al-tawakkul 'alā Allāh ('reliance on God') -- dhikr al-mawt ('remembrance of death'). lillāh/billāh ('by' or 'for God') -- shukr lillāh ('thanks to God') -- walī Allāh ('the friend of God') -- The basmala and the shahāda -- al-'izzatu lillāh ('glory to God') and various phrases -- Verses from the Qur'ān -- Allāh rabbī, Allāh naṣīḥī ('God is my Lord and my counsel') -- Phrases from the root amana and ṣabara -- The basmala ('in the name of God') -- billāh/lillāh ('by, through, or unto God') and other phrases -- tubnā lillāh ('we have repented to God') or sha'a Allāh ('God wills') -- ta'ālā Allāh ('God is exalted' or 'God is ever almighty') -- tawakkul tukfā ('rely [on God]'; 'trust or confidence [in God] will suffice you') -- al-ḥamdu lillāh ('Praise be to God') -- ḥasbī Allāh ('God is sufficient for me') -- al-ḥayā' min al-imān ('modesty is [a part of] faith') -- al-ḥukm lillāh ('judgement belongs to God') -- li kull ajal kitāb ('for each period a book is revealed') -- la ilāha illā Allāh ('there is no god but God') -- māshā'a Allāh ('as God wills', and associated phrases) -- mā tawfǐqī illā billāh ('and my success can only come from God') -- man l'ṭaṣm billāh ('whoever holds firmly to God') -- man katama sirrahu ('he who keeps his secret') -- al-mawt ('death') -- al-mulk lillāh ('sovereignty belongs to God') -- nawal allāh ('gift from God') -- subḥān Allāh ('glory to God') -- al-ṣabr ('patience') -- al-'izz/al-'izza lillāh ('glory / honour / might / power belongs to God') -- 'ināyat al-irāda ('watchfulness of God's will') -- al-wafā ('loyalty') -- al-jalāl lillāh ('glory belongs to God') -- Single words -- iḥfaẓ ('guard or preserve') -- al-'alā or al-'alī ('nobility 'or 'the most high') -- Phrases with makkana ('establish, enable, give strength') -- Various phrases and supplications (du'ā') Muḥammad and 'Alī -- The Twelve Imams -- St George and the dragon -- Poetic texts -- Uncertain phrases. --5. Re-engraved seals and seals with Arabic inscriptions on both sides -- Re-engraved ancient seals -- Seals with Arabic inscriptions engraved on both sides -- 6. Seals fourteenth century and later -- Seals with personal names and benedictory inscriptions or names of the Fourteen Immacutates -- Seals with names alone -- Seals inscribed in Persian -- 7. Dated seals -- Stone dated seals -- Stone seals with only two or three numerals -- Brass dated seals -- Brass seals with only two or three numerals -- 8. Indo-Muslim and miscellaneous seals -- A. Servants of the court and the Emperor -- Seals of officials (the phrase banda-i dargāh + regnal year or regnal year on its own) -- Name and regnal year only -- B. Dated seals, officials or private individuals arranged chronologically -- Hijra and AD dates -- Three numerals only -- Vikram Samvat era -- Undated seals -- C. Forgeries of royal seals -- D. Seals made for Europeans and officials serving in India -- E. Miscellaneous seals: foreign residents of Iran -- 9. Amulets: Introduction -- Positive and negative amulets -- Amulets and the place of magic in Islam -- The relationship between amulet maker and client -- Magical literature -- Inscriptions on amulets -- The importance of the Qur'ān on amulets -- The 'Names of God' -- Arrangement of this part of the catalogue -- Table 4: The abjad system -- Table 5: The names of God -- Table 6: The Fourteen Immaculates -- 9. Catalogue of amulets -- 'Names of God' -- The basmala and the shahāda -- |t Verses from the Qur'ān -- Short passages from the Qur'ān -- The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. The Fourteen Immaculates -- A group of gold amulets -- Three cameo glass amulets -- Dated amulets -- Letters, symbols, numbers, strange words, magic squares and the abjad system -- Magical squares -- The 'mysterious' letters of the Qur'ān -- The seven magical signs -- The angels -- Amulets with engraving errors: authentic or not? -- Brass amulets inscribed in negative -- Spinning rings -- Talismanic discs and the 'lunette script' -- Magical words, mixed numbers and letters -- 'Linear Kufic' -- Rock crystal seals inscribed in 'linear Kufic' -- Lions and scorpions -- Identification of the materials of the seals and amulets / Sylvia Humphrey and Janet Ambers -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Materials -- Bibliography -- Methods of engraving / Margaret Sax and Nigel Meeks -- Introduction and methods of examination -- Observations and Interpretations -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Online references – Concordances -- Concordance of catalogue numbers and British Museum registration numbers: seals -- Concordance of catalogue numbers and British Museum registration numbers: amulets -- Concordance of British Museum registration numbers with catalogue numbers. |
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 202 S. zahlreiche Illustrationen 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780861591602 978-0-86159-160-2 |