Muqarnas, Volume 6

An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture
Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-90-04-25925-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 267 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Muqarnas

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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grabar, Oleg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Oleg 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

Über Autor(innen)

Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) was Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University until his retirement and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He published more then 30 books and countless articles on a range of subjects. Among his best-known works are: Formation of Islamic Art, Illustrations of the Maqamat, The Alhambra, Great Mosque of Isfahan, Mediation of Ornament, Mostly Miniatures, Shape of the Holy, Dome of the Rock, Penser l'art Islamique, and Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th century. Grabar received many honors during his lifetime, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal in 2001 and, in 2010, the Chairman's Award at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Doha. He was the founding editor of Muqarnas.