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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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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'...Die Zeitschrift Muqarnas gehört zu den wichtigsten und anregendsten aktuellen Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet der islamischen Kunst...' M. Barrucand, Der Islam, 1988.
Table of ContentsOleg Grabar, An Exhibition of High Ottoman Art Nasser Rabbat, The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock Jamel Akbar, Khatta and the Territorial structure of Early Muslim Towns Saleh Lamei Mostafa, The Cairene Sabil: Its Form and Meaning Sergei Chmelnizkij, Methods of Constructing Geometric Ornamental Systems in the Cupola of the Alhambra I.I. Notkin, Genotypes of Spatial Form in the Architecture of the East Perween Hasan, Sultanate Mosques and Continuity in Bengal Architecture Iqtidar Alam Khan, New Light on the History of Two Early Mughal Monuments of Bayana Eva Baer, Jeweled Ceramics from Medieval Islam: A Note on the Ambiguity of Islamic Ornament Peter Chelkowski, Narrative Painting and Painting Recitation in Qajar Iran Donna Stein, Three Photographic Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Iran B.W. Robinson, Qajar Lacquer Layla S. Diba, Persian Painting in the Eighteenth Century Nancy Micklewright, Late-Nineteenth-Century Century Ottoman Wedding Costumes as Indicators of Social Change
