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Contents

Foreword
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali

Foreword
Seracettin Şahin

Foreword
Julian Raby

Sponsors

Note to the Reader

Map

 

Essays

Introduction
Massumeh Farhad

The Qur’an
Jane McAuliffe

In the Beginning: Early Qur’ans from Damascus
François Déroche

Shaping the Word of God: Visual Codifications of the Qur’an between 1000 and 1700
Simon Rettig

Illumination and Decorative Designs in Qur’anic Manuscripts
Zeren Tanındı

The Genesis of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Edhem Eldem

 

Catalogue

The Umayyads and the Early Abbasid Period, 650–1000
The Late Abbasid Period, 1000–1250
The Mongols and Their Successors, 1250–1500
The Mamluks, 1250–1500
The Safavids, 1500–1700
The Ottomans, 1400–1700

 

Reference Material

Exhibition Checklist
Glossary
Endnotes to the Catalogue Section
Bibliography
Credits
Contributors
Index



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