An edition of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum
(2011)
Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum
by Venetia Porter
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Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum
2011, British Museum
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194).
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