A Mamluk Pen Box Connected to the Thousand and One Nights and the Historian Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir

The article discusses a remarkable Mamluk pen box in the Louvre, focusing on its inscriptions, which consist of three poems: one by the historian Muhyi ’l-Din Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir, another by his son Taj al-Din, and a third, anonymous poem cited in a tale of The 1001 Nights. The article tries to trace...

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Published in:Muqarnas
Main Author: Behrens-Abouseif, Doris 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2022, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-36
Further subjects:B horsemen
B Inscriptions
B Islamic metalwork
B poetical epigraphy
B pen box
B warfare imagery
B Poetry
B Mamluk metalwork
B Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir (Mamluk historian)
B silver and gold inlaid metalwork epigraphy
B Mamluk art
B The 1001 Nights
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Summary:The article discusses a remarkable Mamluk pen box in the Louvre, focusing on its inscriptions, which consist of three poems: one by the historian Muhyi ’l-Din Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir, another by his son Taj al-Din, and a third, anonymous poem cited in a tale of The 1001 Nights. The article tries to trace the history of the pen box and reconstruct its original layout.
ISSN:2211-8993
Contains:Enthalten in: Muqarnas
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22118993-00391P03