{"id":940,"date":"2013-06-14T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T15:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=940"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T17:02:04","slug":"calligraphy-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/calligraphy-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Calligraphy Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi friends! Arabic calligraphy is one of the finest arts of Islamic culture. The illustrious Dr. Annemarie Schimmel noted calligraphy to be \u201can art which can be called without exaggeration the \u2018quintessential\u2019 art of Islam\u201d (Schimmel in <i>Highlights of Persian art<\/i>. Richard Ettinghausen; Ehsan Yar-Shater, eds. 1979).<\/p>\n<p>McGill is fortunate to have several hundred <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-findinfo\/subjects\/humanities\/islamic\/manuscripts\/\">calligraphy<\/a> specimens, including 200 in Arabic alone. This particular calligraphy piece is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/org\/cmje\/religious-texts\/hadith\/\">H\u0323adi\u0304th<\/a>. Unfortunately the calligrapher did not autograph the work but we may guess that this is a later calligraphy piece, perhaps 18<sup>th<\/sup>-19<sup>th<\/sup> century. An interpretation of this particular H\u0323adi\u0304th was recently commented on in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahram.org.eg\/archive\/Religious-thought\/News\/33362.aspx\">al-ahram<\/a> (Egypt).<\/p>\n<p>The ISL, itself holds a number of pertinent resources in Arabic, English and other languages on H\u0323adi\u0304th. One may find these through searching WorldCat using \u201csu: hadith\u201d (<i>su<\/i> stands for subject as in subject heading) to guide your search.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2013\/06\/pic_2013-06-13_152241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pic_2013-06-13_152241\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2013\/06\/pic_2013-06-13_152241-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RBSC AC187<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi friends! Arabic calligraphy is one of the finest arts of Islamic culture. The illustrious Dr. Annemarie Schimmel noted calligraphy to be \u201can art which can be called without exaggeration the \u2018quintessential\u2019 art of Islam\u201d (Schimmel in Highlights of Persian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/calligraphy-friday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manuscripts-and-rare-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}