A Mamluk Pen Box Connected to the Thousand and One Nights and the Historian Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir
The article discusses a remarkable Mamluk pen box in the Louvre, focusing on its inscriptions, which consist of three poems: one by the historian Muhyi ’l-Din Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir, another by his son Taj al-Din, and a third, anonymous poem cited in a tale of The 1001 Nights. The article tries to trace...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Muqarnas
Year: 2022, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-36 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Inscriptions B Islamic metalwork B poetical epigraphy B pen box B warfare imagery B Poetry B Mamluk metalwork B Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir (Mamluk historian) B silver and gold inlaid metalwork epigraphy B Mamluk art B The 1001 Nights |
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| Summary: | The article discusses a remarkable Mamluk pen box in the Louvre, focusing on its inscriptions, which consist of three poems: one by the historian Muhyi ’l-Din Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir, another by his son Taj al-Din, and a third, anonymous poem cited in a tale of The 1001 Nights. The article tries to trace the history of the pen box and reconstruct its original layout. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8993 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Muqarnas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118993-00391P03 |