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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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
Robert B. Mason, 'New Looks at Old Pots: Results of Recent Multidisciplinary Studies of Glazed Ceramics from the Islamic World.'
Edward J. Keall, 'Forerunners of Umayyad Art: Sculptural Stone from the Hadramawt.'
Avinoam Shalem, 'From Royal Caskets to Relic Containers: Two Ivory Caskets from Burgos and Madrid.'
Ethel Sara Wolper, 'The Politics of Patronage: Political Change and the Construction of Dervish Lodges in Sivas.'
Robert Ousterhout, 'Ethnic Identity and Cultural Appropriation in Early Ottoman Architecture.'
Günkut Akin, 'The Müezzin Mahfili and Pool of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne.'
Derin Terzioğlu, 'The Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582: An Interpretation.'
Serpil Bağci, 'A New Theme of the Shirazi Frontispiece Miniatures: The Divān of Solomon.'
David J. Roxburgh, 'Heinrich Friedrich von Diez and His Eponymous Albums: Mss. Diez A. Fols. 70-74.'
Lisa Golombek, 'The Gardens of Timur: New Perspectives.'
I.I. Notkin, 'Decoding Sixteenth-Century Muqarnas Drawings.'
