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Book SynopsisMuqarnas 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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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 ContentsCONTENTS IN TRIBUTE TO OLEG GRABAR BIBLIOGRAPHY 1993–2007 PATRICIA CRONE, “Barefoot and Naked”: What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like? MICHAEL COOK, The Namesake Taboo GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU, The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest: ʿAbd al-Malik’s Grand Narrative and Sultan Süleyman’s Glosses EVA HOFFMAN, Between East and West: The Wall Paintings of Samarra and the Construction of Abbasid Princely Culture YASSER TABBAA, Andalusian Roots and Abbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakech NASSER RABBAT, Design without Representation in Medieval Egypt SHEILA BLAIR, A Brief Biography of Abu Zaid SCOTT REDFORD, A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey CYNTHIA ROBINSON, Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, and Devotion in the Palace of the Lions HOWAYDA AL-HARITHY, Weaving Historical Narratives: Beirut’s Last Mamluk Monument JONATHAN BLOOM, The “Fatimid” Doors of the Fakahani Mosque in Cairo LISA GOLOMBEK, From Timur to Tivoli: Reflections on il giardino all’italiana ANTHONY WELCH, The Emperor’s Grief: Two Mughal Tombs DAVID ROXBURGH, “The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing’s Form”: On the Sensual and the Sensuous in Islamic Calligraphy TÜLAY ARTAN, A Book of Kings Produced and Presented as a Treatise on Hunting MIKA NATIF, The SOAS Anvār-i Suhaylī: The Journey of a “Reincarnated” Manuscript MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON, Mostly Modern Miniatures: Classical Persian Painting in the Early Twentieth Century
