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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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Muqarnas 28 contains articles on a number of topics including shadow puppets, the concept of fann, Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, and seventeenth-century Persian painting. The "Notes and Sources" section includes a discussion of an early fifteenth-century Khamsa in the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Editor’s Foreword: In Memoriam: Oleg Grabar (1929–2011) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bibliography of Professor Oleg Grabar, 2007–2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alain F. George, The Illustrations of the Maqāmāt and the Shadow Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcus Milwright, On the Date of Paul Kahle’s Egyptian Shadow Puppets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Mestyan, Arabic Lexicography and European Aesthetics: The Origin of Fann . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy S. Landau, From Poet to Painter: Allegory and Metaphor in A Seventeenth-Century Persian Painting by Muhammad Zaman, Master of Farangī-Sāzī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisa Golombek, The So-Called “Turabeg Khanom” Mausoleum in Kunya Urgench: Problems of Attribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suna Çağaptay, Frontierscape: Reconsidering Bithynian Structures and Their Builders on the Byzantine–Ottoman Cusp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Complex of Sultan Mahmud I in Cairo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOTES AND SOURCES Filiz Çağman and Zeren Tanındı, Selections from Jalayirid Books in the Libraries of Istanbul . . . . . Yael Rice, An Early Fifteenth-Century Khamsa from Shiraz in the Bryn Mawr College Library . . . . . . Oleg Grabar†, On Knowledge and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
