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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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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, Europe and the Orient: An Ideologically Charged Exhibition Thomas Leisten, Between Orthodoxy and Exegesis: Some Aspects of Attitudes in the Shariʿa toward Funerary Architecture Sergei Chmelnizkij, The Mausoleum of Muhammad Bosharo Sheila S. Blair, Sufi Saints and Shrine Architecture in the Early Fourteenth Century Michael E. Bonine, The Sacred Direction and City Structure: A Preliminary Analysis of the Islamic Cities of Morocco D. Fairchild Ruggles, The Mirador in Abbasid and Hispano-Umayyad Garden Typology Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq, An Epigraphical Journey to an Eastern Islamic Land Ulrike Al-Khamis, The Iconography of Early Islamic Lusterware from Mesopotamia: New Considerations Scott Redford, How Islamic Is It? The Innsbruck Plate and Its Setting Gülru Necipoğlu, From International Timurid to Ottoman: A Change of Taste in Sixteenth-Century Ceramic Tiles Leonard Helfgott, Carpet Collecting in Iran, 1873–1883: Robert Murdoch Smith and the Formation of the Modern Persian Carpet Industry Jo Tonna, The Poetics of Arab-Islamic Architecture
