Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy

A Note on Transcription and Translation


Introduction: Axes





Part I: A History of Mirror Writing


1. Perspectives: Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing


2. Foundations: The Practice of Mirror Writing


3. Orientations: Reversed and Repeated Writing in Non-Arabic and Arabic Scripts


4. Convergences: Mirror Writing in Greek and Arabic


5. Diffractions: Mirror Writing in Arabic





Part II: A Theory of Mirror Writing


6. Reflections: Mirrors in Islamic Studies


7. Illuminations: A New Discourse on Mirror Writing


8. Directions: The Single-Letter Muthanna


9. Receptions: Multiletter and Multiword Muthannas


10. Projections: Calligraphic Nazires and Mobility





Conclusion: Refractions


Works Consulted


Index

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• Letragem e caligrafia
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• Estudos islâmicos

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