Full Description
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Contents
OLEG GRABAR, Upon Reading al-Azraqi.
EVA BAER, The Mihrab in the Cave of the Dome of the Rock.
JONATHAN M. BLOOM, The Origins of Fatimid Art.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS, The Cult of 'Alid Saints in the Fatimid Monuments of Cairo. Part II: The Mausolea.
YASSER TABBAA, The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning.
SHEILA S. BLAIR, The Madrasa at Zuzan: Islamic Architecture in Eastern Iran on the Eve of the Mongol Invasions
GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU-KAFADAR, The Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul: An Interpretation.
ALAN W. FISHER and CAROL GARRETT FISHER, A Note on the Location of the Royal Ottoman Ateliers . .
ÜLKÜ Ü. BATES, Two Ottoman Documents on Architects in Egypt
JAMES DICKIE, The Mughal Garden: Gateway to Paradise
HELEN JESSUP, Dutch Architectural Visions of the Indonesian Tradition
