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