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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Auteur principal: Behrens-Abouseif, Doris 1946- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2022
Dans: Muqarnas
Année: 2022, Volume: 39, Numéro: 1, Pages: 23-36
Sujets non-standardisés: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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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Muqarnas
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22118993-00391P03