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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Gülru Necİpoğlu, In Memory of Alpay Özdural and His Unrealized Book Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1 CHAPTER 1 Gülru Necİpoğlu, Ornamental Geometries: A Persian Compendium at the Intersection of the Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   11 CHAPTER 2 Elaheh Kheirandish, An Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   79 CHAPTER 3 Jan P. Hogendijk, A Mathematical Classifijication of the Contents of an Anonymous Persian Compendium on Decorative Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  145 CHAPTER 4 Alpay Özdural, Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  163 TRANSLATION, TRANSCRIPTION, AND DRAWINGS An English translation by Alpay Özdural of Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfijiqa (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 Özdural’s drawings, with commentaries by Gülru Necipoğlu (based on “Analyses,” the second chapter in Alpay Özdural’s unpublished book) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  179 FACSIMILE A reduced-scale reproduction of Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfijiqa (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r–199r) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  376

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