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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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
Rafi Grafman and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, The Two Great Syrian Umayyad Mosques: Jerusalem and Damascus
Mariam Rosser-Owen, A Córdoban Ivory Pyxis Lid in the Ashmolean Museum
Eva Baer, The Human Figure in Early Islamic Art: Some Preliminary Remarks
Ömür Bakirer, The Story of Three Graffiti
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, "In the Image of Rum": Ottoman Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Aleppo and Damascus
Leonid A. Beliaev and Alexei Chernetsov, The Eastern Contribution to Medieval Russian Culture
Willem Floor, Art (Naqqashi) and Artists (Naqqashan) in Qajar Persia
Mohammad Al-Asad, The Mosque of the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara: Breaking with Tradition
Hana Taragan, Architecture in Fact and Fiction: The Case of the New Gourna Village in Upper Egypt
