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Highlights included a fourteenth century page from an Egyptian Koran in Kufic script and four eighteenth century Iranian leather pages from the Book of Divination. The rigid authority of such a regime, or its "unkind logic," are likened here to the renowned Iraqi schools of grammar, when the mariner of mariners laments: "The Basran grammar opposed me, and so did the Kufic grammar. The brilliant Uskudar, for example, is named for one of Istanbul's Asiatic suburbs, and its highly formal--if asymmetrical--design of overlapping, vertical and horizontal oblongs includes many collaged elements, among them the Turkish flag, arabesques of Kufic script, even a kitsch photograph of the sun setting behind the Blue Mosque. |
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