PREACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE: Muslim Scholar-Calligraphers Bridging Cultural Borders and Pedagogical Boundaries.

Research on calligraphy has gradually increased in scholarship on Islam and the arts, although it has yet to receive the attention that other manifestations of Islamic visual culture have. Most scholarship has focused on pre-modern masters of the art, manuscripts, and epigraphy, with scant considera...

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Publicado en:Cross Currents Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 209 - 243
Autores principales: Simonowitz, David, Sousa, Chloe, Watson, Jane Ashley
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of North Carolina Press Sep2025
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