TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Venetia
AU  - Bhandare,Shailendra
AU  - Hoyland,Robert G.
AU  - Morton,A.H.
AU  - Ambers,J.
ED  - British Museum.
TI  - Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum
T2  - British Museum Research Publication
SN  - 9780861591602 (pbk.) :
AV  - CD5020.G72 L676 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - British Museum
KW  - British Museum
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - Seals (Numismatics)
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Amulets
KW  - Inscriptions, Persian
KW  - Inscriptions, Arabic
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194); Seal practice in the Islamic world --; Terminology --; Byzantine practice and influence --; Islam: the Prophet's seal --; The diwan al-khatim: the 'office of the seal' and the Sasanian legacy --; Sasanian royal seals --; The relationship between Sasanian and early Islamic seals --; Seals of the caliphs as described by medieval authors --; Early Islamic lead and bronze seals: form and function --; The study of lead seals --; The terms 'kura' and 'iqlim' --; Seals on Arabic papyri and clay discs --; Clay tokens or receipts --; Personal seals: literary references --; Figural representation on early seals --; From the tenth century: the 'alama and ink seals --; The Safavid period: seal impressions, royal and personal seals --; Indo-Muslim seals of the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries --; Features of Indo-Muslim seals --; Seal practice under the Ottomans --; Forgery --; Seal engravers --; Parallels between coins and seals --; Seals and amulets from archaeological sites --; Style and content of the early seals --; Definition of scripts --; Epigraphy and dating --; Grammatical and orthographic features --; Rhyming assonantal inscriptions and parallels with coins --; Ornamentation --; Shapes and mounts --; Names --; Phrases --; Later seals --; Provenance --; Dates on seals --; Scope and arrangement of the catalogue --; Arabic --; Recording the inscription --; Trransliteration --; Qur'an and Hadith references --; The British Museum collection --; Table 1; Epigraphic Styles on Seals --; Table 2; Ornamentation --; Table 3; Shapes and Mounts --; 1; Clay, bronze and lead sealings c. eighth-tenth centuries --; Clay sealings --; Bronze sealing --; Lead sealings from Syria, Palestine and North Africa --; Eastern Islamic world: Abbasid and Buyid sealings --; Dulafid sealings --; 2; Names --; 3; Names and phrases --; al-i'tisam billah ('seeking refuge in God') --; al-thiqa billah ('trust in God') --; al-tawakkul 'ala Allah ('reliance on God') --; dhikr al-mawt ('remembrance of death') --; lillah/billah ('by' or 'for God') --; shukr lillah ('thanks to God') --; waliAllah ('the friend of God') --; The basmala and the shahada --; al-'izzatu lillah ('glory to God') and various phrases --; 4; Phrases --; Verses from the Qur'an --; Allah rabbi, Allah nasihi ('Cod is my Lord and my counsel') --; Phrases from the root amana and sabara --; The basmala ('in the name of God') --; billah/lillah ('by, through, or unto God') and other phrases --; tub na lillah ('we have repented to God') or sha'a Allah ('God wills') --; ta'ala Allah ('God is exalted' or 'God is ever almighty') --; tawakkul tukfa ('rely [on God]'; 'trust or confidence [in God] will suffice you') --; al-hamdu lillah ('Praise be to God') --; hasbi Allah ('God is sufficient for me') --; al-haya' min al-iman ('modesty is [a part of] faith') --; al-hukm lillah ('judgement belongs to God') --; li kull ajal kitab ('for each period a book is revealed') --; la ilaha illa Allah ('there is no god but God') --; masha'a Allah ('as God wills', and associated phrases) --; ma tawfiqi illa billah ('and my success can only come from God') --; man l'tasam billah ('whoever holds firmly to God') --; man katama sirrahu ('he who keeps his secret') --; al-mawt ('death') --; al-mulk lillah ('sovereignty belongs to God') --; nawal allah ('gift from God') --; subhan Allah ('glory to God') --; al-sabr ('patience') --; al-'izz/al-'izza lillah ('glory / honour / might / power belongs to God') --; 'inayat al-irada ('watchfulness of God's will') --; al-wafa ('loyalty') --; al-jalal lillah ('glory belongs to God') --; Single words --; ihfaz ('guard or preserve') --; al-'ala or al-'ali ('nobility 'or 'the most high') --; Phrases with makkana ('establish, enable, give strength') --; Various phrases and supplications (du'a') --; Muhammad and 'All --; The Twelve Imams --; St George and the dragon --; Poetic texts --; Uncertain phrases --; 5; Re-engraved seals and seals with Arabic inscriptions on both sides --; Re-engraved ancient seals --; Seals with Arabic inscriptions engraved on both sides --; 6; Seals c. fourteenth century and later --; Seals with personal names and benedictory inscriptions or names of the Fourteen Immacutates --; Seals with names alone --; Seals inscribed in Persian --; 7; Dated seals --; Stone dated seals --; Stone seals with only two or three numerals --; Brass dated seals --; Brass seals with only two or three numerals --; 8; Indo-Muslim and miscellaneous seals --; A; Servants of the court and the Emperor --; Seals of officials (the phrase banda-i dargah + regnal year or regnal yearon its own) --; Name and regnal year only --; B; Dated seals, officials or private individuals arranged chronologically --; Hijra and AD dates --; Three numerals only --; Vikram Samvat era --; Undated seals --; C; Forgeries of royal seals --; D; Seals made for Europeans and officials serving in India --; E; Miscellaneous seals: foreign residents of Iran --; 9; Amulets: Introduction --; Positive and negative amulets --; Amulets and the place of magic in Islam --; The relationship between amulet maker and client --; Magicalliterature --; Inscriptions on amulets --; The importance of the Qur'an on amulets --; The 'Names of God' --; Arrangement of this part of the catalogue --; Table 4; The Abjad System --; Table 5; The Names of God --; Table 6; The Fourteen Immaculates --; 9; Catalogue of Amulets --; 'Names of God' --; The basmala and the shahada --; Verses from the Qur'an --; Short passages from the Qur'an --; The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus --; a'udhu bi-jalal Allah ('I seek protection in the glory of God' etc.) --; Supplications to God --; God, the Prophet Muhammad and his family, and the Twelve Imams --; The Fourteen Immaculates --; A group of gold amulets --; Three cameo glass amulets --; Dated amulets --; Letters, symbols, numbers, strange words, magic squares and the abjad system --; Magical squares --; The 'mysterious' letters of the Qur'an --; The seven magical signs --; The angels --; Amulets with engraving errors: authentic or not? --; Brass amulets inscribed in negative --; Spinning rings --; Talismanic discs and the 'lunette script' --; Magical words, mixed numbers and letters --; 'Linear Kuflc' --; Rock crystal seals inscribed in 'linear Kufic' --; Lions and scorpions --; Identification of the Materials of the Seals and Amulets; Janet Ambers --; Introduction --; Methodology --; Materials --; Bibliography --; Methods of Engraving; Nigel Meeks --; Introduction and methods of examination --; Observations and Interpretations --; Concluding remarks --; Bibliography --; Bibliography --; Online references --; Concordances --; Concordance of catalogue numbers and British Museum registration numbers: seals --; Concordance of catalogue numbers and British Museum registration numbers: amulets --; Concordance of British Museum registration numbers with catalogue numbers
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