Muqarnas 34

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35442-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 1327 g

Reihe: Muqarnas

Muqarnas 34 features articles ranging from monumental architecture in seventh-century Jerusalem to modern Arab painting in Syria. It includes an archaeological study of the Agdal in Marrakesh, one of the few surviving medieval Islamic estates; as well as a fresh assessment of Ilkhanid polychrome stucco decoration in the Pir-i Bakran mausoleum. The volume contains several articles on interactions between Islamic and Christian societies as attested in architectural landscapes from the early modern period. One piece interprets an inscribed Renaissance gate at a Crimean palace; another provides a fascinating micro-history of Venetian merchants in Aleppo, who lived in commercial khans. Other highlights include an article exploring the impact of Shirazi poets and their tombs on the famous traveler, Pietro della Valle; and an investigation of the forgotten Galata New Mosque in Istanbul, built by the queen mother in 1698 to replace a prominent Catholic convent church following Ottoman military defeats.

The Notes and Sources section introduces several new texts, including a Neo-Latin poem that challenges recent modifications to the Alhambra’s iconic Fountain of Lions, and a hitherto undeciphered Persian chronogram poem, which sheds valuable light on the production sites of luster-painted ceramics in the Safavid period. Also featured is a sixteenth-century Arabic chronicle describing Ottoman construction projects in Mecca within the context of diplomatic relations between Istanbul and Gujarat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Necipo&

Necipoglu, Gülru

Metzler, Maria J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Heba Mostafa, From the Dome of the Chain to Mihrab Da'ud: The Transformation of an Umayyad Commemorative Site at the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem

Julio Navarro Palazón, The Agdal of Marrakesh (Twelfth to Twentieth Centuries): An Agricultural Space for Caliphs and Sultans, Part I: History

Ana Marija Grbanovic, The Ilkhanid Revetment Aesthetic in the Buq'a Pir-i Bakran: Chaotic Exuberance or a Cunningly Planned Architectural Revetment Repertoire?

Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, An Italian Renaissance Gate for the Khan: Visual Culture in Early Modern Crimea

Michele Lamprakos, Life in the Khans: The Venetians in Early Ottoman Aleppo

Muzaffer Özgüles, A Missing Royal Mosque in Istanbul that Islamized a Catholic Space: The Galata New Mosque

Cristelle Baskins, Writing the Dead: Pietro della Valle and the Tombs of Shirazi Poets

Anneka Lenssen, Adham Isma'il’s Arabesque: The Making of Radical Arab Painting in Syria

NOTES AND SOURCES
Bernhard Schirg, (Re)writing the Early Biography of the Alhambra’s Fountain of Lions: New Evidence from a Neo-Latin Poem (1497)

Yui Kanda, Kashan Revisited: A Luster-painted Ceramic Tombstone Inscribed with a Chronogram Poem by Muhtasham Kashani

Guy Burak, Between Istanbul and Gujarat: Descriptions of Mecca in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean

Über Autor(innen)

Gülru Necipoglu, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has been the editor of Muqarnas since 1993.

Volume 34 contains articles by Heba Mostafa, Julio Navarro, Ana Marija Grbanovic, Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, Michele Lamprakos, Muzaffer Özgüles, Cristelle Baskins, Anneka Lenssen, Bernhard Schirg, Yui Kanda, and Guy Burak.