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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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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 ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction David J. Roxburgh, The Study of Painting and the Arts of the Book Materials and Methods Jonathan M. Bloom, The Introduction of Paper to the Islamic Lands and the Development of the Illustrated Manuscript Sheila S. Blair, Color and Gold: The Decorated Papers used in Manuscripts in Later Islamic Times The Conception and Realization of Painting Eva R. Hoffman, The Beginnings of the Illustrated Arabic Book: An Intersection between Art and Scholarship Abolala Soudavar, The Age of Muhammadi Lâle Uluç, Selling to the Court: Late-Sixteenth-Century Manuscript Production in Shiraz Theories and Aesthetics of Painting Priscilla P. Soucek, The Theory and Practice of Portraiture in the Persian Tradition Yves Porter, From the 'Theory of the Two Qalams' to the 'Seven Principles of Painting': Theory, Terminology, and Practice in Persian Classical Painting David J. Roxburgh, Kamal al-Din Bihzad and Authorship in Persianate Painting Later Responses to Paintings and Books Zeren Tanindi, Additions to Illustrated Manuscripts in Ottoman Workshops Serpil Bağcı, From Translated Word to Translated Image: The illustrated Şehnâme-i Türkî<\i> John Seyller, A Mughal Code of Connoisseurship
