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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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, K. A. C. Creswell and His Work
Julian Raby, Reviewing the Reviewers
J.W. Allan, New Additions to the New Edition
Robert Hillenbrand, Creswell and Contemporary Central European Scholarschip
Eric Fernie, The History of Medieval Architecture from Carolingian to Romanesque: Criteria and Definitions from 1925 to the Present Day
Cyril Mango, Approaches to Byzantine Architecture
J.M. Rogers, Architectural History as Literature: Creswell's Reading and Methods
Jonathan M. Bloom, Creswell and the Origins of the Minaret
John Warren, Creswell's Use of the Theory of Dating by the Acuteness of the Pointed Arches in Early Muslim Architecture
Sheila S. Blair, Surveyor versus Epigrapher
Alastair Northedge, Creswell, Herzfeld, and Samarra
G.R.D. King, Creswell's Appreciation of Arabian Architecture
Mark Horton, Primitive Islam and Architecture in East Africa
Gloria Karnouk, The Creswell Library: A Legacy
Teresa Fitzherbert, The Creswell Photographic Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
R.W. Hamilton, Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, 1879-1974
Note:
R.D. McChesney, Postscript to "Four Sources on Shah ʿAbbas's Building of Isfahan"
