• Saunders, Paula. 1994. Ritual, Politics, and the city in Fatimid Cairo. SUNY Press. (Ch 3 “The Ritual City,” pp39-82)

• Bierman, I. 1998. Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text. U. California Press (Chapters 1, 4, and afterword)

How does writing in itself constittue a landscape?

Hava a look at this "tour" of early Islamic calligaraphy that is now on display at the MFA in Boston.

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