Muqarnas [electronic resource] : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world. Volume 25, Frontiers of Islamic art and architecture: essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday / edited by Gulru Necipoglu, Julia Bailey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Necipoğlu, Gülru.

Bailey, Julia, 1944-

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.

Series:

Muqarnas 25.

Brill eBook titles 2008

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic art.

Islamic architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / G. Necipoğlu

“Barefoot And Naked”: What Did The Bedouin Of The Arab Conquests Look Like? / Patricia Crone

The Namesake Taboo / Michael Cook

The Dome Of The Rock As Palimpsest: ʿAbd Al-Malik’s Grand Narrative And Sultan Süleyman’s Glosses / Gülru Necipoğlu

Between East And West: The Wall Paintings Of Samarra And The Construction Of Abbasid Princely Culture / Eva R. Hoffman

Andalusian Roots And Abbasid Homage In The Qubbat Al-Barudiyyin In Marrakech / Yasser Tabbaa

Design Without Representation In Medieval Egypt / Nasser Rabbat

A Brief Biography Of Abu Zayd / Sheila S. Blair

A Newly Read Inscription On The Walls Of Antalya, Turkey / Scott Redford

Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, And Devotion In The Palace Of The Lions / Cynthia Robinson

Weaving Historical Narratives: Beirut’S Last Mamluk Monument / Howayda Al-Harithy

The “Fatimid” Doors Of The Fakahani Mosque In Cairo / Jonathan M. Bloom

From Timur To Tivoli: Reflections On IL Giardino All’Italiana / Lisa Golombek

The Emperor’s Grief: Two Mughal Tombs / Anthony Welch

“The Eye Is Favored For Seeing The Writing’s Form”: On The Sensual And The Sensuous In Islamic Calligraphy / David J. Roxburgh

A Book Of Kings Produced And Presented As A Treatise On Hunting / Tülay Artan

The Soas Anvār-I Suhaylī:The Journey Of A “Reincarnated” Manuscript / Mika Natif

Mostly Modern Miniatures: Classical Persian Painting In The Early Twentieth Century / Marianna Shreve Simpson.

Notes:

"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-60257-8

9786612602573

90-474-2674-6

OCLC:

815248687

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004173279.i-396 DOI