The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana /

The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana /

Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the ar...

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Main Author: Blair, Sheila S. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1991.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.
Muqarnas, Supplements ; 5.

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Islamic inscriptions > Iran.  
Persian inscriptions > Iran.  

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Call Number: PK6400.2

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
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  • 1 195/810-11, Foundation Inscription (?) from Darband /
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  • 2 265/878-79 and Later, Graffiti at Bahmandiz /
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  • 3 308/920-21, Congregational Mosque in Baylaqan /
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  • 4 [320s/930s], Tomb of the Samanids at Bukhara /
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  • 5 [3]35/946-47, Rock-Cut Inscription at Tang-i Buraq /
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  • 6 Safar 344/June 955, Commemorative Text by ʿAdud al-Dawla at Persepolis /
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  • 7 344/955-56, Second Commemorative Text by ʿAdud al-Dawla at Persepolis /
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  • 8 348/959-60, Commemorative Text by Two Buwayhid Amirs at Naqsh-i Rustam /
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  • 9 [ca. 350/960], Congregational Mosque at Naʾin (INM 144) /
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  • 10 363/973-74, Five Wooden Plaques, Now Dispersed but Probably from a Grille in a Tomb at Kufa /
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  • 11 Rabiʿ I 367/Oct.-Nov. 977, Arab-ata Mausoleum at Tim /
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  • 12 374/984-85, Kalhur Bridge over the Kashkan River Near Khurramabad (INM 335) /
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  • 13 375/985-86, Hasanwayhid Cistern /
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  • 14 [350-75/960-85], Jurjir Mosque at Isfahan /
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  • 15 [350-75/960-85], Domed Room from Sabz Pushan at Nishapur /
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  • 16 [350-75/960-85], Shir Kabir Mausoleum at Dihistan /
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  • 17 389/998-99, Octagonal Pavilion at Natanz /
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  • 18 392/1001-2, Commemorative Inscription by Bahaʾ al-Dawla at Persepolis /
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  • 19 397/1006-7, Gunbad-i Qabus (INM 86) /
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  • 20 399/1008-9, Maiden's Bridge over the Kashkan River Near Khurramabad (INM 335) /
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  • 21 [ca. 400/1010], Palace at Sarmaj /
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  • 22 [ca. 400/1010], Lintel and Graffiti from Bisutun /
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  • 23 [375-400/985-1010], Congregational Mosque at Ardistan (INM 284) /
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  • 24 [ca. 400/1010], Mihrab above the Allahu Akbar Pass Outside of Shiraz /
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  • 25 [350-400/960-1010], Mausoleum of Ahmad in the Baba Gamber Cemetery South of Imam Baba /
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  • 26 [ca. 400/1010], Congregational Mosque at Khiva /
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  • 27 [ca. 400/1010], Congregational Mosque at Iskodar /
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  • 28 401/1010-11, Minaret at Gurganj /
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  • 29 404/1013-1014, Hasanwayhid Bridge /
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  • 30 Ramadan 404/March-April 1014, Mosque at Isbijab /
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  • 31 407-11/1016-21, Tomb Tower at Radkan West (INM 145) /
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  • 32 413?/1022-23, Tomb Tower at Lajim (INM 185) /
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  • 33 413?/1022-23, Congregational Mosque at Qurva (INM 433) /
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  • 34 417/1026-27, Pir-i ʿAlamdar at Damghan (INM 79) /
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  • 35 [418/1027], Minaret Outside the Tarik Khana at Damghan (INM 80) /
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  • 36 41X/1019-28, Bath at Qalʿa-i Sang Outside of Sirjan /
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  • 37 [422-25/1031-35], Minaret of the Congregational Mosque at Simnan /
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  • 38 423/1031-32, Minaret at Tirmidh /
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  • 39 Ramadan 429/June-July 1038, Duvazdah Imam at Yazd (INM 207) /
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  • 40 [427-31/1035-40], Stone Slab from Ghazna in the Name of Masʿud I /
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  • 41 432/1040-41, Khatir Gate at Yazd /
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  • 42 433/1041-42, Commemorative Text by Arslan Tikin on the Waruh Gorge /
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  • 43 2 Aban 438/24 October 1046, Commemorative Text by Abu Kalijar at Persepolis /
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  • 44 Shawwal 444/Jan.-Feb. 1053, Commemorative Text by ʿAmid al-Din at Persepolis /
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  • 45 446/1054-55, Chihil Dukhtaran at Damghan (INM 83) /
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  • 46 448/1056-57, Gunbad-i ʿAli at Abarquh (INM 195) /
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  • 47 447-51/1055-60, Tomb of Shah Fadl at Safid Buland /
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  • 48 454/1062, Commemorative Text by a Soldier at Naqsh-i Rustam /
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  • 49 455/1063, City Gate at Ganja /
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  • 50 460/1067-68, First (Eastern) Tomb Tower at Kharraqan /
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  • 51 461/1068-69, Masjid-i Pa Manar at Zavara (INM 108) /
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  • 52 Dhu'l-Qaʿda 465/July 1073, Village Mosque at Ani /
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  • 53 [ca. 465/1072-73], City Walls at Ani /
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  • 54 466/1073 and Later, Maydan Mosque at Abyana /
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  • 55 [46]6/1073-74, Tomb Tower at Rayy /
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  • 56 466/1073-74, Minaret and Congregational Mosque at Kashan (INM 252) /
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  • 57 [465-70/1072-77], Madrasa at Khargird (INM 125) /
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  • 58 471/1078-79, Ribat-i Malik /
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  • 59 474/1081-82, Muhammad Mosque and Minaret at Baku /
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  • 60 [ca. 479/1086-87], Congregational Mosque at Ani /
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  • 61 [Jumada II 479-Dhuʾl-Hijja 480/Sept. 1086-March 1087], South Dome of the Congregational Mosque at Isfahan (INM 328) /
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  • 62 481/1088-89, North Dorne of the Congregational Mosque at Isfahan (INM 328) /
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  • 63 [474-82/1081-89], Tomb of al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi at Tirmidh /
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  • 64 [465-85/1065-85], Building at Nishapur /
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  • 65 486/1093-94, Second (Western) Tomb Tower at Kharraqan /
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  • 66 490/1096-97, Tomb Tower at Mihmandust (INM 277) /
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  • 67 491/1097-98, Minaret at Barsiyan (INM 265) /
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  • 68 Jumada II 491/May-June 1098, Yarti Gunbad at Old Sarakhs /
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  • 69 [451-92/1059-99], Stone Fragments from Ghazna in the Name of Ibrahim b. Masʿud /
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  • 70 [487-492/1094-9], Tomb of ʿAbd al-ʿAzim b. ʿAbdallah b. ʿAli at Rayy /
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  • 71 [4]95/1101-2, Minaret at Mashhad-i Misriyyan /
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  • 72 49X/1096-1106, Mosque at Dandanqan /
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  • 73 [450-500/1058-1106], Minaret of the Congregational Mosque at Damghan (INM 81) /
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  • 74 [ca. 500/1106], Masjid-i Sar-i Kucha at Muhammadiyya /
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  • 75 [ca. 500/1106], Imamzada Yahya b. Zayd at Sar-i Pul /
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  • 76 [ca. 500/1106], Mausoleum of ʿAbdallah b. Burayda at Vakil Bazar /
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  • 77 [ca. 500/1106], Tomb of Mir Sayyid Bahram at Kirminiyya /
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  • 78 [ca. 500/1106], Minaret at Karat (INM 123) /
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  • 79 [ca. 500/1106], Tomb Tower at Risgit (INM 193) /
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