Folio. Plates Volume: 199 pages comprising 105 profusely illustrated colour plates / Text Volume: 49 pp., of English text + 42 pp., of Arabic text, including captions to all illustrations, end paper colour plates, biblio, original cloth, title printed in Arabic & English on front cover, set in mint condition, limited edition to 2400 copies, this copy is not numbered, Touch Editions, UK, reproduced by Neue Schwitter AG, Switzerland, no date [2001]. A beautifully illustrated edition.

Synopsis

This work consists of the following :
Introduction: Islam, the Arabs and Arabic
I – The study of Qur’anic calligraphy and illumination: East and West
II- The historical background.
III – Early manuscripts to the end of the Umayyad Period
IV – The classical period of Kufic: from early Abbasid to the New Style 3rd/9th to 5th/11th centuries
V – Qur’ans in cursive: AD100 to AD1300
VI – Qur’ans from the Maghreb
Conclusion: The Codicological Revolution