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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: 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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Table of ContentsEditor’s Note Oleg Grabar, 'Michael Meinecke and His Last Book.' Thomas Leisten, 'Mashhad al-Nasr: Monuments of War and Victory in Medieval Islamic Art.' Jere L. Bacharach, 'Marwanid Umayyad Building Activities: Speculations on Patronage.' Nasser Rabbat, ‘Al-Azhar Mosque: An Architectural Chronicle of Cairo’s History.’ Howyda N. Al-Harithy, 'The Complex of Sultan Hasan in Cairo: Reading between the Lines.' Nuha N.N. Khoury, ‘The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Tenth Century.’ Michael Cooperson, 'Baghdad in Rhetoric and Narrative.' Aptullah Kuran, 'A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals: Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul.' Filiz Çağman and Zeren Tanindi, 'Remarks on Some Manuscripts from the Topkapi Palace Treasury in the Context of Ottoman-Safavid Relations.' Yildirim Yavuz, 'The Restoration Project of the Masjid al-Aqsa by Mimar Kemalettin (1922-26)' Anthony Welch, 'A Medieval Center of Learning in India: The Haus Khas in Delhi.' Alpay Özdural, 'On Interlocking Similar or Corresponding Figures and Ornamental Patterns of Cubic Equations.'
