Grafitti
Ilkka Lindstedt
Related Terms:
- Colophon (brief statement about a book’s making)
- Qalam (reed pen)
- Qur’an (the sacred text of Islam)
- Tughra (imperial signature)
Related Khamseen Videos:
Christiane Gruber, “Two Islamic Amulets in the Aga Khan Museum: Inked Surfaces, Hidden Stories,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 10 February 2022.
Marika Sardar, “A Samanid Epigraphic Dish,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.
References:
Al-Jallad, Ahmad and Hythem Sidky, “A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 83/1 (2024): 1–14.
Blair, Sheila. Islamic Inscriptions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Lindstedt, Ilkka. “Arabic Rock Inscriptions until 750 CE.” In The Umayyad World, edited by Andrew Marsham, 411–437. London: Routledge, 2021.
Nehmé, Laïla. “A Glimpse of the Development of the Nabataean Script into Arabic Based on Old and New Epigraphic Material.” In The Development of Arabic as a Written Language, edited by M.C.A. Macdonald, 47–88. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010.
Al-Rashid, Saʿd. Kitabat Islamiyya Ghayr Manshura min Ruwawa al-Madinat al-Munawwara. Riyadh: Matkabat al-Malik Fahd, 1993.
Citation:
Ilkka Lindstedt, “Grafitti,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 6 September 2024.
Ilkka Lindstedt (Ph.D., University of Helsinki, 2014) is Lecturer in Islamic theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published scholarly articles on pre-Islamic Arabia, early Islam, Arabic epigraphy, and Arabic historiography. He is particularly interested in changes in religious groups and ideas in late antique Arabia. His monograph Muhammad and His Followers in Context: The Religious Map of Late Antique Arabia was published by Brill in 2024.