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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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
Adel T. Adamova (translated by J. M. Rogers), The Iconography of A Camel Fight
Nurhan Atasoy, Ottoman Garden Pavilions and Tents
Serpil Bağcı, Old Images for New Texts and Contexts: Wandering Images In Islamic Book Painting
Kaveh Bakhtiar, Palatial Towers of Nasir Al-Din Shah
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court
Michele Bernardini, The Illustrations of a Manuscript of the Travel Account of François de la Boullaye le Gouz in the Library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome
John Carswell and Julian Henderson, Rhyton? Write On ...
Pedro Moura Carvalho, What Happened to the Mughal Furniture? The Role of the Imperial Workshops, the Decorative Motifs Used, and the Influence of Western Models
Anna Contadini, A Wonderful World: Folios from a Dispersed Manuscript of the Nuzhat-Nāma
Yolande Crowe, A Late Safavid Dish: A Cluster of Exotic Trees and Foliage
Giovanni Curatola, A Sixteenth-Century Quarrel about Carpets
Ibolya Gerelyes, Seeking the East in the West: The Zsolnay Phenomenon
Rosalind A. Wade Haddon, Two Ceramic Pieces from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Robert Irwin, Futuwwa: Chivalry and Gangsterism in Medieval Cairo
A. A. Ivanov (translated by J. M. Rogers), A Second "Herat Bucket" and its Congeners
Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil, Signs of the Times: Arabic Signatures as a Measure of Acculturation in Norman Sicily
Manuel Keene, Old World Jades outside China, from Ancient Times to the Fifteenth Century: Section One
Nasser D. Khalili, A Recently Acquired Incense Burner in the Khalili Collection
G. R. D. King, The Paintings of the Pre-Islamic Kaʿba
Mark Kramarovsky, The "Sky Of Wine" of Abu Nuwas and Three Glazed Bowls from the Golden Horde, Crimea
Jens Kröger, On Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabi's Manuscript of Yüsuf va Zulaykhā of 964 (1557)
Boris I. Marshak, An Early Seljuq Silver Bottle from Siberia
Alison Ohta, Filigree Bindings of the Mamluk Period
Bernard O'Kane, Chaghatai Architecture and the Tomb of Tughluq Temūr at Almaliq
Julian Raby, Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shuaybiyya, and the "Classical Revival"
Günsel Renda, Sindbādnāma An Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in Iconography and Style
Tim Stanley, The Books of Umur Bey
Zeren Tanindi, Bibliophile Aghas (Eunuchs) at Topkapı Sarayı
Rachel Ward, The Inscription on the Astrolabe by ʿAbd al-Karim in the British Museum
Owen Wright, The Sight of Sound
Filiz Yenişehirioğlu, Ottoman Ceramics in European Contexts
