Glass

by Carboni, Stefano

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Glass ( zujāj, zajāj , and zijāj , sing. zujāja ; also qawārīr , “glass vessels, pieces of glass”; in Persian ābgīneh or shīsheh ; and which is mentioned in Q 24:35 with a meaning often interpreted as a “glass container for a lamp in a niche [mishkāt] ”) is usually listed as a type of artificial stone in mediaeval Islamic scientific works on mineralogy (see, for example, al-Bīrūnī, Kitāb al-jamāhir fī maʿrifat al-jawāhir [Islamabad 1989], 191–3). In literary accounts, glass vessels and centres …

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Glass ( zujāj, zajāj , and zijāj , sing. zujāja ; also qawārīr , “glass vessels, pieces of glass”; in Persian ābgīneh or shīsheh ; and which is mentioned in Q 24:35 with a meaning often interpreted as a “glass container for a lamp in a niche [mishkāt] ”) is usually listed as a type of artificial stone in mediaeval Islamic scientific works on mineralogy (see, for example, al-Bīrūnī, Kitāb al-jamāhir fī maʿrifat al-jawāhir [Islamabad 1989], 191–3). In literary accounts, glass vessels and centres of glass production are reported from across the

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2172

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eng Islam

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Carboni, Stefano

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