The arts of ornamental geometry : a Persian compendium on similar and complementary interlocking figures : Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfiqa (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r) : a volume commemorating Alpay Özdural
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The arts of ornamental geometry : a Persian compendium on similar and complementary interlocking figures : Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfiqa (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r) : a volume commemorating Alpay Özdural
（Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture, v. 13）
Brill, 2017
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فى تداخل الأشکال المتشابهة او المتوافقة
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Description
This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay OEzdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gulru Necipoglu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile.
This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects.
For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay OEzdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
GUELRU NECIPOGLU, In Memory of Alpay OEzdural and His Unrealized Book Project
CHAPTER 1
GUELRU NECIPOGLU, Ornamental Geometries: A Persian Compendium at the Intersection of the Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences
CHAPTER 2
ELAHEH KHEIRANDISH, An Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources
CHAPTER 3
JAN P. HOGENDIJK, A Mathematical Classification of the Contents of an Anonymous Persian Compendium on Decorative Patterns
CHAPTER 4
ALPAY OEZDURAL, Preliminaries (first chapter of Alpay OEzdural's unpublished book)
TRANSLATION, TRANSCRIPTION, AND DRAWINGS
An English translation by Alpay OEzdural of Fi tadakhul al-ashkal al-mutashabiha aw al-mutawafiqa(On Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures), edited and revised by Wheeler M. Thackston, with contributions by the other authors
Accompanied by Wheeler M. Thackston's transcription of the Persian text and Alpay OEzdural's drawings, with commentaries by Gulru Necipoglu (based on "Analyses," the second chapter in Alpay OEzdural's unpublished book)
FACSIMILE
A reduced-scale reproduction of Fi tadakhul al-ashkal al-mutashabiha aw al-mutawafiqa (Bibliotheque nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r)
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