Author
Swailem, Adel Abdel Moneim, Obaid, Shibl Ibrahim Shibl
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 1026-9576
Record ID
cdi_almandumah_primary_670276
Library Location
EBSCOhost Humanities International Complete
Notes
This research is concerned with studying a number of Persian inscriptions executed on some religious buildings in the Khanate of Khiva in the Khiva region of Central Asia, in the period from the first quarter of the 12th century AH/18AD until the last quarter of the 13th century AH/19AD. These inscriptions were executed on the tops of the entrance blocks and their stones, on floors of ceramic tiles known in that region as “maiolka,” or on marble. We will address these inscriptions through two different directions, one of which represents the form of the calligraphy in which these inscriptions are executed, and the other: deals with study and analysis of the content of those inscriptions. As for the form of the calligraphy, the inscriptions on the buildings of the Khanate of Khiva were executed in several languages, ranging from Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and Chagat Turkish, most of which were written in the Persian Nastaliq script. This diversity in using multiple Islamic languages to implement the founding inscriptions on the buildings is considered one of the distinctive features of the inscriptions on the buildings of Khiva, which may have set it apart from all the major khans of Asia. The middle one. The predominance of the use of the Nasta'liq script is due to the spread of Persian culture in Central Asia in general, a culture in which the spread of the Nasta'liq script began at the beginning of the Safavid era, after its rules had been established by the great calligraphers during the Timurid era in Iran and Central Asia. As for the content of these inscriptions, it was also characterized by diversity. It included - among other things - a number of religious inscriptions (Qur’anic verses) and supplications, in addition to some recording inscriptions, which included many of the names of the rulers and princes who ruled ((Khiva)) in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AH/the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD and their titles, as well as the dates of construction or completion of the building that were recorded according to the Al-Jamal account. These contents demonstrate the extent of their connection with the political conditions that prevailed in the Central Asian region in the period. Subject of study.
Görüntüle
al-Majallah al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻulūm al-insānīyah, 2015, Vol.33 (130), p.85-121
