نقوش خواتم الخلفاء العباسيين : دراسة و تحقيق

Abstract EN

Wearing rings is an ancient human custom.

Since ancient times, man has inclined toward wearing different types of rings for different reasons, including ornamentation and for political and religious goals.

Hence, the ring became a token of sovereignty, a sign of grandeur, and power.

In later stages man adorned the gems of rings with inscriptions that express the personalities of their holders and their lives' visions.

Muslims used rings for the same purposes as earlier previous nations.

They wore rings for official - and non - official purposes in emulation of the Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him), who institutionalized the wearing of inscribed rings.

Caliphs in Islam used official and personal rings, on which they inscribed, phrases that summarized their ideas and visions.

Abbasid Caliphs continued this custom, and their care for rings and their inscriptions were no less than that of their predecessors.

Inscriptions on the rings of the Abbasid Caliphs present an important topic of study.

This research deals with these inscriptions' features, contents, styles and sources and contemporary researchers, interest in this custom.

As such, the researcher has collected inscriptions of Caliphs rings from this era and analyzed them in the most scientific manner possible