Mohammad Gharipour, Irvin Cemil Schick (eds.). Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World

This volume is a large collection of 28 articles dedicated to the question of calligraphy in architecture in the ‘Muslim’ World. The articles or chapters were authored by a wide variety of specialists such as artists, art critics, art historians, and historians. As stated in the introduction, the main question addressed is the function of calligraphy in architecture. Was calligraphy meant to be read? How? And by whom? Was it supposed to communicate a message through its text (indicative, comm..