Muqarnas, Volume 20

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-25940-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 687 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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.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.

Necipo&

Necipoglu, Gülru

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS
Alain Fouad George, The Geometry of the Qur'an of Amajur: A Preliminary Study of Proportion in Early Arabic Calligraphy
Anna Contadini, A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitab na't al-hayawan (British Library Or. 2784)
Persis Berlekamp, Painting as Persuasion: A Visual Defense of Alchemy in an Islamic Manuscript of the Mongol Period
Stefano Carboni, The Painted-Glass Decoration of the Mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifa'i in Cairo
Marcus Milwright, Modest Luxuries: Decorated Lead-glazed Pottery in the South of Bilad al-Sham (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)
Heather Ecker, The Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Deborah Howard, Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the Mid-Fifteenth Century
Zeynep Yürekli, A Building between the Public and Private Realms of the Ottoman Elite: The Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul
Ahmet Ersoy, A Sartorial Tribute to Late Tanzimat Ottomanism: The Elbise-i 'OsmaniyyeAlbum
Kishwar Rizvi, Religious Icon and National Symbol: The Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran
Mary McWilliams, Collecting by the Book: The Shaping of Private and Public Collections
Valérie Gonzalez, The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that Sees: A Comparison of Aesthetic Phenomenology

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.