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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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
Stephen Vernoit, 'The Rise of Islamic Archaeology'
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'The Lion-Gazelle Mosaic at Khirbat al-Mafjar'
Francisco Prado-Vilar, 'Circular Visions of Fertility and Punishment: Caliphal Ivory Caskets from al-Andalus'
Avinoam Shalem, 'Jewels and Journeys: The Case of the Medieval Gemstone Called al-Yatima'
F.B. Flood, 'Umayyad Survivals and Mamluk Revivals: Qalawunid Architecture and the Great Mosque of Damascus'
Ayşil Tükel Yavuz, The Concepts that Shape Anatolian Seljuq Caravanserais'
Amy Singer, 'The Mülknāmes of Hürrem Sultan's Waqf in Jerusalem'
Klaus Kreiser, 'Public Monuments in Turkey and Egypt, 1840-1916'
Karin Rührdanz, 'About a Group of Truncated Shāhnāmas: A Case Study in the Commercial Production of Illustrated Manuscripts in the Second Part of the Sixteenth Century'
Salome Zajadacz-Hastenrath, 'A Note on Babur's Lost Funerary Enclosure at Kabul'
Ebba Koch, 'Mughal Palace Gardens from Babur to Shah Jahan, (1526-1648)'
Anthony Welch, 'The Shrine of the Holy Footprint in Delhi'
Timothy Insoll, 'Mosque Architecture in Buganda, Uganda'
