Acknowledgements Notes on contributors List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Introduction - Bernard O'Kane & A.C.S. Peacock Part I. Inscriptions and Royal Power Chapter 2: The Fatimid Public Text Revisited - Jonathan Bloom Chapter 3: Micro and Macro Power Projection in the Medieval Islamic World: The Architectural and Numismatic Epigraphic Evidence - Richard McClary Chapter 4: The Monumental Inscriptions of the Great Seljuqs, Maliksh?h and Tutush. Observations on Texts, Protocols and Writing Styles - Roberta Giunta Chapter 5: New Epigraphic Data from a Ghurid Monument at Chisht-i Sharif: Expressing Power and Piety in Sixth/Twelfth Century Afghanistan - Viola Allegranzi Part II. Inscriptions and Piety Chapter 6: Stars and Symmetry: The Prophet Muhammad's Name in Architectural Inscriptions - Bernard O'Kane Chapter 7: Barakat Mu?ammad. Notes on Square Kufic Epigraphy in the history of Morocco - Umberto Bongianino & Péter Nagy Chapter 8: Islamic Supplications of the Funerary Architecture of Medieval Castille - Razan Francis Chapter 9: The Shaykh and the Amir: Reflections on the non-Qur?anic Epigraphic Programme in the Buildings of Shaykh? al-?Umar? al-N??ir? - Noha Abou-Khatwa Part III.
Inscriptions, History and Society Chapter 10: Tombstones from Aswan in the British Museum - Venetia Porter Chapter 11: Marwanid inscriptions - Carole Hillenbrand Chapter 12: The Rise of New Epigraphic Languages in the Medieval Islamic East. The Interplay of Persian, Turkish and Arabic on Inscriptions - A.C.S. Peacock Chapter 13: Inscriptions from the Golden Horde Period and the Crimean Khanate in Crimea: a Body of Hitherto Neglected Material within the Study of the Inscriptions of Islamic Lands - Nicole Kançal-Ferrari & Fatma M. ?en Part IV. Inscribed Objects Chapter 14: The Epigraphic Samarra Horizon: Blue-on-White Ceramics - Becky Wrightson Chapter 15: Art with Poetry: Inscriptions on Mamluk Metalwork - Doris Behrens-Abouseif Chapter 16: 'The Calligrapher Is An Ape!' Arabic Epigrams on Pen Boxes (Sixth/Twelfth-Ninth/Fifteenth centuries) - Frédéric Bauden Chapter 17: Between the Artist and the Patron: Painted Inscriptions of the Khamsa of Shah ?ahm?sb - Selin Ünlüönen Part V. Epigraphic style and function Chapter 18: The Influence of Aesthetics on Orthographic Decisions in the Early Islamic Graffiti of Wadi al-Khirqa, Northern Hijaz - Risa Tokunaga Chapter 19: The Here and the Hereafter: Rounded and Angular Inscriptions in Medieval Syria, Anatolia, and the Jazira - Scott Redford Chapter 20: Luted Letters: The Relief Inscriptions on Kashan Luster Mihrabs - Sheila Blair Chapter 21: Carved Letters, Designs and Ornaments: Ilkhanid Stuccos and "Signatures" of their Craftsmen -Ana Marija Grbanovic Chapter 22: The Qutb Minar: Epigraphic Notes - Robert Hillenbrand.