Muqarnas : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world.

Corporate Author: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
Other Authors: Necipoğlu, Gülru.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2003.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=132991
Table of Contents:
  • The geometry of the Qurʼan of Amajur : a preliminary study of proportion in early Arabic calligraphy / Alain Fouad George
  • A bestiary tale : text and image of the unicorn in the Kitāb naʻt al-ḥayawān (British Library Or. 2784) / Anna Contadini
  • Painting as persuasion : a visual defense of alchemy in an Islamic manuscript of the Mongol Period / Persis Berlekamp
  • The painted-glass decoration of the Mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifaʻi in Cairo / Stefano Carboni
  • Modest luxuries : decorated lead-glazed pottery in the south of Bilad al-Sham (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) / Marcus Milwright
  • The Great Mosque of Córdoba in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Heather Ecker
  • Death in Damascus : Venetians in Syria in the mid-fifteenth century / Deborah Howard
  • A building between the public and private realms of the Ottoman elite : the Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul / Zeynep Yürekli
  • A sartorial tribute to late Tanzimat Ottomanism : the Elbise-i ʻO̲smāniyye album / Ahmet Ersoy
  • Religious icon and national symbol : the Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran / Kishwar Rizvi
  • Collecting by the book : the shaping of private and public collections / Mary McWilliams
  • The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that sees : a comparison of aesthetic phenomenology / Valérie Gonzalez.