Muqarnas : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world. / Volume 25, : Frontiers of Islamic art and architecture: essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday / / edited by Gulru Necipoglu, Julia Bailey.

Muqarnas 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 being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles de...

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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Muqarnas 25.
Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.)
Notes:"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts."
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Other title:Preliminary Materials /
“Barefoot And Naked”: What Did The Bedouin Of The Arab Conquests Look Like? /
The Namesake Taboo /
The Dome Of The Rock As Palimpsest: ʿAbd Al-Malik’s Grand Narrative And Sultan Süleyman’s Glosses /
Between East And West: The Wall Paintings Of Samarra And The Construction Of Abbasid Princely Culture /
Andalusian Roots And Abbasid Homage In The Qubbat Al-Barudiyyin In Marrakech /
Design Without Representation In Medieval Egypt /
A Brief Biography Of Abu Zayd /
A Newly Read Inscription On The Walls Of Antalya, Turkey /
Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, And Devotion In The Palace Of The Lions /
Weaving Historical Narratives: Beirut’S Last Mamluk Monument /
The “Fatimid” Doors Of The Fakahani Mosque In Cairo /
From Timur To Tivoli: Reflections On IL Giardino All’Italiana /
The Emperor’s Grief: Two Mughal Tombs /
“The Eye Is Favored For Seeing The Writing’s Form”: On The Sensual And The Sensuous In Islamic Calligraphy /
A Book Of Kings Produced And Presented As A Treatise On Hunting /
The Soas Anvār-I Suhaylī:The Journey Of A “Reincarnated” Manuscript /
Mostly Modern Miniatures: Classical Persian Painting In The Early Twentieth Century /
Summary:Muqarnas 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 being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1282602578
9786612602573
9047426746
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gulru Necipoglu, Julia Bailey.