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Muqarnas: 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…
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This work provides a guide to Islamic art and architecture. Chapters cover topics such as glazed ceramics from the Islamic world; sculptural stone from the Hadramawt; ethnic identity and cultural…
This annual volume on Islamic visual culture covers such topics as: medieval Islamic art; Cairo’s architectural history; the Haus Khas in Delhi; and a spatial study of three Ottoman capitals…
This annual includes articles on: the rise of Islamic archaeology; public monuments in Turkey and Eygpt, 1860-1916; Mughal Palace gardens from Babur to Shah Jahan, 1526-1648; and the shrine of…
This annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world includes chapters on: Mardin and Diyarbekr; an early Bronze ewer; memory and nostalgia in Taifa court culture; F.R. Martin and…
This is the 16th edition of the annual and includes articles on: the two great Syrian Umayyad mosques; the human figure in early Islamic art; the Eastern contribution to medieval…
This title contains essays which consider aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary. These include: On the Umayyad Dating of the Double Gate in Jerusalem , The Concept of…
A study of the visual culture of the Islamic world. The essays address: Persian drawing between 1400-1450; the obsession with fountains in 18th-century Istanbul; the construction of Ronald Graham’s Persian…
Gulru Necipoglu
Muqarnas , the well-respected annual of Islamic art and architecture, is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U. and MIT. The 20th volume features 12…
Muqarnas: 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…
Muqarnas 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 being published on all…
Muqarnas 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…
Topics covered include the introduction of paper to the Islamic lands and the development of the illustrated manuscript, the beginning of the illustrated Arabic book, late 16th century manuscript production…
Muqarnas 26 contains articles on a variety of topics that span and transcend the geographic and temporal boundaries that have traditionally defined the history of Islamic art and architecture.
Muqarnas 29 features a subset of articles involving cross-cultural interactions between East and West as manifested in the visual culture of the region.
Muqarnas 30 features a subset of articles involving cross-cultural interactions between East and West as manifested in the visual culture of the region.
Muqarnas, Volume 27
Muqarnas 28 contains articles on a number of topics including shadow puppets, the concept of fann, Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, and seventeenth-century Persian painting. The Notes and Sources section includes…
Muqarnas 34 features articles ranging from monumental architecture in seventh-century Jerusalem to modern Arab painting in Syria. The volume contains several articles on interactions between Islamic and Christian societies as…
The fortieth-anniversary volume addresses the historical trajectory of Muqarnasand its sister series, Muqarnas Supplements, against the backdrop of a changing scholarly landscape, particularly in the last decade. It includes twelve…
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F Flood
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more…
This volume contains articles that range from a study of architectural innovations in the early mosque under the Umayyads to an analysis of archaeological finds in medieval Armenia, the book…
Muqarnas 35 begins in Almohad Marrakesh, with one article analyzing the plan of the twelfth-century Kutubiyya Mosque and another on the hydraulics, architecture, and agriculture of the Agdal, a medieval…
Muqarnas 36 features a stunning variety of Islamic art genres, ranging from monumental architecture, manuscripts, textiles, and tiles, to inscriptions, material objects, and forgery. It sweeps across India, Iran, and…
