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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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Table of ContentsOleg Grabar, On Catalogues, Exhibitions, and Complete Works Jonathan M. Bloom, The Mosque of the Qarafa in Cairo Leonor Fernandes, The Foundation of Baybars al-Jashankir: Its Waqf, History, and Architecture Howard Crane, Some Archaeological Notes on Turkish Sardis Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Siyah Qalem and Gong Kai: An Istanbul Album Painter and a Chinese Painter of the Mongolian Period Doğan Kuban, The Style of Sinan's Domed Structures Yasser Tabbaa, Bronze Shapes in Iranian Ceramics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy, The Architecture of Baha al-Din Tughrul in the Region of Bayana, Rajasthan Glenn D. Lowry, Humayun's Tomb: Form, Function, and Meaning in Early Mughal Architecture Peter Alford Andrews, The Generous Heart or the Mass of Clouds: The Court Tents of Shah Jahan Priscilla P. Soucek, Persian Artists in Mughal India: Influences and Transformations A.J. Lee, Islamic Star Patterns
