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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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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'The issues of this journal...serve as a reliable annual on Islamic and even non-Islamic research.' Carolyn Kane, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1994. '...a great tool for many a researcher...In a variety of manners, questions every generation should ask, are set afresh in the light of new discoveries and techniques...' Yolande Crowe, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1994.
Table of ContentsOleg Grabar, Between Connoisseurship and Technology: A Review Howard Crane, Traditional Pottery Making in the Sardis Region of Western Turkey Jonathan M. Bloom, The Introduction of the Muqarnas into Egypt Marilyn Jenkins, Mamluk Jewelry: Influences and Echoes Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Kulshani in Cairo Godfrey Goodwin, Gardens of the Dead in Ottoman Times Jale Erzen, Sinan as Anti-Classicist Maurice Cerasi, Late Ottoman Architects and Master Builders R.D. McChesney, Four Sources on Shah ‘Abbas's Building of Isfahan Elizabeth B. Moynihan, The Lotus Garden Palace of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur William G. Klingelhofer, The Jahangiri Mahal of the Agra Fort: Expression and Experience in Early Mughal Architecture
