Full Description
Muqarnas 35 begins in Almohad Marrakesh, with one article analyzing the plan of the twelfth-century Kutubiyya Mosque and another on the hydraulics, architecture, and agriculture of the Agdal, a medieval Islamic estate that continues to be cultivated. The volume also contains an essay discussing the patronage and decoration of the Begumpuri Masjid of Jahanpanah (Delhi), with an accompanying note tracing the history of glazed tiles. Several articles challenge long-held scholarly assumptions on topics such as Mughal portraiture and the atypical square-tower minarets in Herzegovina. Other essays deal with questions of cultural identity, whether manifested in grand-scale architectural monuments or in personal belongings—for example, the family photo album with portraits of Ottoman sultans compiled by a Hungarian woman who immigrated to Istanbul in the mid-nineteenth century; and an illustrated genealogy from seventeenth-century Baghdad that represents tensions between the Ottomans and Safavids. Rounding out the volume is a history of modern art in Baghdad, focusing on the painter Jewad Selim and his encounter with Yahya al-Wasiti's illustrations of the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī.
The Notes and Sources section announces the discovery of two rare early Abbasid painted ceramic bowls from recent excavations in central Israel. It also features a study of a nineteenth-century Persian manuscript on porcelain manufacture; as well as a heretofore-unknown manuscript of The Arabian Antiquities of Spain by the Irish architect James Cavanah Murphy, with many extra illustrations, original drawings, and proofs of plates.
Volume 35 includes articles by Julio Navarro et al., Abbey Stockstill, Yves Porter and Richard Castinel, Laura E. Parodi, Melis Taner, Maximilian Hartmuth, Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Saleem al-Bahloly, Itamar Taxel et al., Mehran and Moujan Matin, and Lynda S. Mulvin.
Contents
CONTENTS
Avinoam Shalem, In Memoriam: Eva Baer (1920-2017)
Julio Navarro, Fidel Garrido, and Íñigo Almela, The Agdal of Marrakesh (Twelfth to Twentieth Centuries): An Agricultural Space for Caliphs and Sultans. Part II: Hydraulics, Architecture, and Agriculture
Abbey Stockstill, A Tale of Two Mosques: Marrakesh's Masjid al-Jamiʿ al-Kutubiyya
Yves Porter and Richard Castinel, Jahanpanah's Jamiʿ Masjid (circa 1343): A Reassessment
Laura E. Parodi, Shah Abuʾl-Maʿali, Mir Sayyid ʿAli, and the Sayyids of Tirmiz: Three Portraits Challenge Akbari Historiography
Melis Taner, An Illustrated Genealogy between the Ottomans and the Safavids
Maximilian Hartmuth, Mosque-Building on the Ottoman-Venetian Frontier, circa 1550-1650: The Phenomenon of Square-Tower Minarets Revisited
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Immigrant Narratives: The Ottoman Sultans' Portraits in Elisabeth Leitner's Family Photo Album, circa 1862-72
Saleem Al-Bahloly, History Regained: A Modern Artist in Baghdad Encounters a Lost Tradition of Painting
NOTES AND SOURCES
Itamar Taxel, Ayala Lester, and Uzi ʿAd, Two Rare Early Abbasid Paint-Decorated Ceramic Bowls from el-Khirba/Nes Ziyyona, Israel
Yves Porter, The Shahi ʿIdgah of 1312 at Rapri (Uttar Pradesh): A Landmark in Indian Glazed Tiles
Mehran Matin and Moujan Matin, A Preliminary Study of a Nineteenth-Century Persian Manuscript on Porcelain Manufacture in the Sipahsalar Library, Tehran
Lynda S. Mulvin, An Unknown Collection of Preliminary Drawings and Extra Illustrations Prepared for The Arabian Antiquities of Spain by James Cavanah Murphy in the Gennadius Library, Athens
