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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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, On Catalogues, Exhibitions, and Complete Works
Jonathan M. Bloom, The Mosque of the Qarafa in Cairo
Leonor Fernandes, The Foundation of Baybars al-Jashankir: Its Waqf, History, and Architecture
Howard Crane, Some Archaeological Notes on Turkish Sardis
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Siyah Qalem and Gong Kai: An Istanbul Album Painter and a Chinese Painter of the Mongolian Period
Doğan Kuban, The Style of Sinan's Domed Structures
Yasser Tabbaa, Bronze Shapes in Iranian Ceramics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy, The Architecture of Baha al-Din Tughrul in the Region of Bayana, Rajasthan
Glenn D. Lowry, Humayun's Tomb: Form, Function, and Meaning in Early Mughal Architecture
Peter Alford Andrews, The Generous Heart or the Mass of Clouds: The Court Tents of Shah Jahan
Priscilla P. Soucek, Persian Artists in Mughal India: Influences and Transformations
A.J. Lee, Islamic Star Patterns
