{"product_id":"muqarnas-volume-30-celebrating-thirty-years-of-muqarnas-9789004259508","title":"Muqarnas, Volume 30: Celebrating Thirty Years of Muqarnas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuqarnas: 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 this thirtieth-anniversary issue of Muqarnas, various scholars provide their thoughts on the publication’s impact on the field of Islamic art. The volume contains articles on historiographical issues as well as others that emphasize the multicultural expansion of the field. There are also essays on Timurid and Safavid manuscript painting and al-Hariri’s Maqāmāt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  Gülru Necipoğlu, Reflections on Thirty Years of Muqarnas  Benedict Cuddon, A Field Pioneered by Amateurs: The Collecting and Display of Islamic Art in Early Twentieth-Century Boston  Silvia Armando, Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881–1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies In Italy  Ayşin Yoltar-Yildirim, Raqqa: The Forgotten Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the Early Twentieth Century  D. Fairchild Ruggles, At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History: The Rajputs of South Asia  Jennifer Pruitt, Methodi in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid Era  Peter Christensen, “As if she were Jerusalem”: Placemaking in Sephardic Salonica  David J. Roxburgh, In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Hariri’s Maqāmāt  Abolala Soudavar, The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza Salman  Lâle Uluç, An Iskandarnāma of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan   NOTES AND SOURCES   Serpil Bağci, Presenting Vaṣṣāl Kalender’s Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman Albums  Gülru Necipoğlu, “Virtual Archaeology” in Light of a New Document on the Topkapı Palace’s Waterworks and Earliest Buildings, circa 1509  Ebba Koch, The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210643136855,"sku":"9789004259508","price":50.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/muqarnas-volume-30-celebrating-thirty-years-of-muqarnas-9789004259508","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}