Arabic miniature
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Arabic miniatures are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations but also sometimes separate artworks. The earliest date from around 1000 AD, with a flourishing of the artform from around 1200 AD.[1][2]
Arabic miniature artists include Ismail al-Jazari, who illustrated his own Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.[3]
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“Kitāb mukhtār al-ḥikam” by Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik, 13th century manuscript.
Arabic miniature featuring Harith Gassani.
“Hadith Bayad wa Riyad”, an illustrated manuscript from al-Andalus.
Maqamat of al-Hariri (43rd maqam), The Story of the Lost Traveler.
Maqamat of al-Hariri. Village scene with animals by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti.
Abû Zayd preaches in the mosque of Samarkand, circa 1300. Maqamat of al-Hariri Syrian manuscript.
Elephant clock by al-Jazari.
Arab dhow, c. 1230 AD, by an Iraqi painter.
A giraffe from “Kitāb al-ḥayawān” (Book of the Animals) by Al-Jahiz.
Arabic manuscript illumination from the 12th century CE showing the Brethren of Purity.
1310 Syrian illustration of “Kalila wa-Dimna”.
The Maqamat of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, 9th century.
The frontispiece of a manuscript of “Kitab al-Aghani” of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani.
Maqamat of al-Hariri by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti.
“Kitāb mukhtār al-ḥikam” by Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik, Syrian manuscript circa 1250.
See also[]
- Baghdad School
- Mughal Painting
References[]
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- ^ "Miniature Painting". The David Collection. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination" (PDF). Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 28 (10): 166–171. October 1933.
- ^ al-Jazari, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices: Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya, transl. & anno. Donald R. Hill. (1973), Springer Science+Business Media.
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