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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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
Eva Baer, The Illustrations for an Early Manuscript of Ibn Butlan's Da'wat al-Aṭibbā' in the L.A. Mayer Memorial in Jerusalem
Anthony Welch, Hussein Keshani, and Alexandra Bain, Epigraphs, Scripture, and Architecture in the Early Delhi Sultanate
David J. Roxburgh, Persian Drawing, ca. 1400-1450: Materials and Creative Procedures
R.D. McChesney, Architecture and Narrative: The Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine. Part 2: Representing the Complex in Word and Image, 1696-1998
Machiel Kiel, The Quatrefoil Plan in Ottoman Architecture Reconsidered in Light of the "Fethiye Mosque" of Athens
Shirine Hamadeh, Splash and Spectacle: The Obsession with Fountains in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Willem Floor, The Talar-i Tavila or Hall of Stables, a Forgotten Safavid Palace
Brian L. McLaren, The Italian Colonial Appropriation of Indigenous North African Architecture in the 1930's
Jeffrey B. Spurr, Person and Place: The Construction of Ronald Graham's Persian Photo Album
