A. Bain

This paper will discuss the significance of Qur'anic epigraphy on religious architecture by analysing the previously unexamined inscriptions of one of the Delhi Sultanate's major monuments. The inscriptions on the interior and the exterior of the 'Alai Darwaza, appear to constit…

The inclusion of representational imagery in a sacred context is extremely rare in the history of Islamic art. This dissertation examines the evolution of the Ottoman En'am-i Serif , a group of manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in which sacred te…