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The Celestial Element, Loai Omran
The Celestial Element, Loai Omran
Archived Theses and Dissertations
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Bahri Mamluk Wooden Ceilings, Jasmin Wardani
Bahri Mamluk Wooden Ceilings, Jasmin Wardani
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Borges The Sufi, Dalia Mohamed Eltayeb
Borges The Sufi, Dalia Mohamed Eltayeb
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser
Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser
Archived Theses and Dissertations
Since Quranic inscriptions dominate the epigraphic decoration of Cairene Islamic religious monuments, the target of this thesis has been to investigate the Quranic inscriptions of some selected religious monuments of each main era of the Islamic history of Cairo: Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman. The questions examined are the following: what was the frequency of utilizing Quranic inscriptions compared to other types of inscriptions? What are the common architectural locations of Quranic quotations compared to other types of inscriptions? Regardless of the form of the script, whether naskhi or kufic, what were the common stylistic visual forms of inscriptions on religious …