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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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Trade Review'This third volume of the Aga Khan Program-sponsored annual collection of scholarly articles continues the high standards of its predecessors...' RBP, Middle East Journal, 1987. 'Die Zeitschrift Muqarnas gehört zu den wichtigsten und anregendsten aktuellen Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet der islamischen Kunst und dieser Band steht seinen beiden Vorgängern in Qualität um nichts nach.' Marianne Barrucand, Der Islam, 1988.
Table of ContentsOLEG GRABAR, Upon Reading al-Azraqi. EVA BAER, The Mihrab in the Cave of the Dome of the Rock. JONATHAN M. BLOOM, The Origins of Fatimid Art. CAROLINE WILLIAMS, The Cult of 'Alid Saints in the Fatimid Monuments of Cairo. Part II: The Mausolea. YASSER TABBAA, The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning. SHEILA S. BLAIR, The Madrasa at Zuzan: Islamic Architecture in Eastern Iran on the Eve of the Mongol Invasions GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU-KAFADAR, The Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul: An Interpretation. ALAN W. FISHER and CAROL GARRETT FISHER, A Note on the Location of the Royal Ottoman Ateliers . . ÜLKÜ Ü. BATES, Two Ottoman Documents on Architects in Egypt JAMES DICKIE, The Mughal Garden: Gateway to Paradise HELEN JESSUP, Dutch Architectural Visions of the Indonesian Tradition
