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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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
Raya Shani and Doron Chen, On the Umayyad Dating of the Double Gate in Jerusalem
Finbarr B. Flood, The Medieval Trophy as an Art Historical Trope: Coptic and Byzantine "Altars" in Islamic Contexts
Howayda Al-Harithy, The Concept of Space in Mamluk Architecture
R.D. McChesney, Architecture and Narrative: The Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine. Part 1: Constructing the Complex and lts Meaning, 1469-1696
Ruba Kana'an, Waqf, Architecture, and Political Self-Fashioning: The Construction of the Great Mosque of Jaffa by Muhammad Aga Abu Nabbut
Armen Ghazarian and Robert Ousterhout, A Muqarnas Drawing from Thirteenth-Century Armenia and the Use of Architectural Drawings during the Middle Ages
Oya Pancaroğlu, Socializing Medicine: Illustrations of the Kitāb al-Diryāq
Oleg Grabar and Mika Natif, Two Safavid Paintings: An Essay in Interpretation
Nebahat Avcioğlu, Ahmed I and the Allegories of Tyranny in the Frontispiece to George Sandys's Relation of a Journey
Caroline Williams, John Frederick Lewis: "Reflections of Reality"
