A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts

This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.

About the author

Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Ph.D. (2012, Delhi University), is a calligrapher and an independent scholar. He has published several books including Zar-Afshan: A Dictionary of Terms Relating to Calligraphy, Ornamentation, and the Making of Manuscripts as Found in Classical Persian Poetry (Tehran, 2013).

Shervin Farridnejad, Ph.D. (2014, Georg-August University of Göttingen), is a calligrapher, illuminator and scholar of ancient and classical Iranian Studies at the Austran Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He has published monographs, and articles most notably on the Judeo-Persian and Zoroastrian iconography, literature and manuscript cultures, among others Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus (Harrassowitz 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani
• Assisted by: Shervin Farridnejad (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2015
• EAN: 9789004277472
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27747-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 953 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous