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

Corporate Author: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
Other Authors: Behrens-Abouseif, Doris.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • The iconography of A camel fight / Adel T. Adamova
  • Ottoman garden pavilions and tents / Nurhan Atasoy
  • Old images for new texts and contexts : wandering images in Islamic book painting / Serṗil Bağci
  • Palatial towers of Nasir al-Din Shah / Kaveh Bakhtiar
  • European arts and crafts at the Mamluk Court / Doris Behrens-Abouseif
  • 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 / Michele Bernardini
  • Rhyton? Write on / John Carswell and Julian Henderson
  • What happened to the Mughal furniture? The role of the imperial workshops, the decorative motifs used, and the influence of western models / Pedro Moura Carvalho
  • A wonderful world : folios from a dispersed manuscript of the Nuzhat-Nāma / Anna Contadini
  • A late Safavid dish : a cluster of exotic trees and foliage / Yolande Crowe
  • A sixteenth-century quarrel about carpets / Giovanni Curatola
  • Seeking the East in the West : the Zsolnay phenomenon / Ibolya Gerelyes
  • Two ceramic pieces from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco / Rosalind A. Wade Haddon
  • Futuwwa : chivalry and gangsterism in medieval Cairo / Robert Irwin
  • A second "Herat bucket" and it congeners / A.A. Ivanov
  • Signs of the times : Arabic signatures as a measure of acculturation in Norman Sicily / Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil
  • Old world jades outside China, from ancient times to the fifteenth century : section one / Manuel Keene
  • A recently acquired incense burner in the Khalili Collection / Nasser D. Khalili
  • The paintings of the pre-Islamic Kaʻba / G.R.D. King
  • The "sky of wine" of Abu Nuwas and three glazed bowls from the Golden Horde, Crimea / Mark Kramarovsky.
  • On Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabi's manuscript of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā of 964 (1557) / Jens Kröger
  • An early Seljuq silver bottle from Siberia / Boris I. Marshak
  • Filigree bindings of the Mamluk Period / Alison Ohta
  • Chaghatai architecture and the Tomb of Tughluq Temür at Almaliq / Bernard O'Kane
  • Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shuʻaybiyya, and the "classical revival" / Julian Raby
  • Sindbādnāma : an early Ottoman illustrated manuscript unique in iconography and style / Günsel Renda
  • The books of Umur Bey / Tim Stanley
  • Bibliophile aghas (eunuchs) at Topkapi Saray / Zeren Tanindi
  • The inscription on the astrolabe by ʻAbd al-Karim in the British Museum / Rachel Ward
  • The sight of sound / Owen Wright
  • Ottoman ceramics in European contexts / Ḟil̇iz Yenişeḣirlioğlu.