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Book SynopsisMuqarnas 26 contains articles on a variety of topics that span and transcend the geographic and temporal boundaries that have traditionally defined the history of Islamic art and architecture. Contributors include Robert McChesney, Mattia Guidetti, Marcus Schadl, Christian Gruber, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Doris Abouseif, Olga Bush, Emine Fetvaci, Moya Carey, Bernard O'Kane, Hadi Maktabi, Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit.
Table of ContentsEditors’ Note and New Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts Mattia Guidetti, The Byzantine Heritage in the Dār al-Islām: Churches and Mosques in al-Ruha between the Sixth and Twelfth Centuries Katia Cytryn-Silverman, The Umayyad Mosque of Tiberias Marcus Schadl, The Shrine of Nasir Khusraw: Imprisoned Deep in the Valley of Yumgan R. D. McChesney, An Early Seventeenth-Century Palace Complex (Dawlatkhāna) in Balkh Olga Bush, The Writing on the Wall: Reading the Decoration of the Alhambra Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Jalayirid Connection in Mamluk Metalware Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit, Imari Porcelain in Morocco Moya Carey, Al-Sufi and Son: Ibn al-Sufi’s Poem on the Stars and Its Prose Parent Bernard O’Kane, Reconciliation or Estrangement? Colophon and Paintings in the TİEM Ẓafarnāma and Some Other Controversial Manuscripts Christiane Gruber, Between Logos (Kalima) and Light (Nūr): Representations of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Painting Emine Fetvaci, The Production of the Şehnāme-i Selīm Ḫān Hadi Maktabi, Under the Peacock Throne: Carpets, Felts, and Silks in Persian Painting, 1736–1834 Notes and Sources Marianne Barrucand† and Mourad Rammah (Avinoam Shalem and Jean-Pierre Van Staëvel, editors), Sabra al-Mansuriyya and Her Neighbors during the First Half of the Eleventh Century: Investigations on Stucco Decoration Cumulative (Chronological) Index of Articles, Muqarnas I–XXV
