基本説明
Contents: The Geomertry of the Quran of Amajur/ The Great Mosque of Cordoba/ Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the Mid-Fifteenth Century/ religious Icon and National Symbol: The Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
Full Description
Muqarnas , the well-respected annual of Islamic art and architecture, is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U. and MIT. The 20th volume features 12 articles on topics that include geometry in a 9th-century Koran, the defense of alchemy in a Mongol era manuscript, t
Contents
CONTENTS
Alain Fouad George, The Geometry of the Qurʾan of Amajur: A Preliminary Study of Proportion in Early Arabic Calligraphy
Anna Contadini, A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitāb naʿt al-ḥayawān (British Library Or. 2784)
Persis Berlekamp, Painting as Persuasion: A Visual Defense of Alchemy in an Islamic Manuscript of the Mongol Period
Stefano Carboni, The Painted-Glass Decoration of the Mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifaʿi in Cairo
Marcus Milwright, Modest Luxuries: Decorated Lead-glazed Pottery in the South of Bilad al-Sham (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)
Heather Ecker, The Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Deborah Howard, Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the Mid-Fifteenth Century
Zeynep Yürekli, A Building between the Public and Private Realms of the Ottoman Elite: The Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul
Ahmet Ersoy, A Sartorial Tribute to Late Tanzimat Ottomanism: The Elbise-i ʿOsmāniyyeAlbum
Kishwar Rizvi, Religious Icon and National Symbol: The Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran
Mary McWilliams, Collecting by the Book: The Shaping of Private and Public Collections
Valérie Gonzalez, The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that Sees: A Comparison of Aesthetic Phenomenology
