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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, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In this thirtieth-anniversary issue of Muqarnas, various scholars provide their thoughts on the publicationâs impact on the field of Islamic art. The volume contains articles on historiographical issues as well as others that emphasize the multicultural expansion of the field. There are also essays on Timurid and Safavid manuscript painting and al-Haririâs MaqÄmÄt.
Authors include Benedict Cuddon, Silvia Armando, AyÅin Yoltar-Yıldırım, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Jennifer Pruitt, Peter Christensen, David J. Roxburgh, Abolala Soudavar, and Lâle Uluç, with contributions to the âNotes and Sourcesâ section by Serpil BaÄcı, Gülru NecipoÄlu, and Ebba Koch.
In this thirtieth-anniversary issue of Muqarnas, various scholars provide their thoughts on the publicationâs impact on the field of Islamic art. The volume contains articles on historiographical issues as well as others that emphasize the multicultural expansion of the field. There are also essays on Timurid and Safavid manuscript painting and al-Haririâs MaqÄmÄt.
Authors include Benedict Cuddon, Silvia Armando, AyÅin Yoltar-Yıldırım, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Jennifer Pruitt, Peter Christensen, David J. Roxburgh, Abolala Soudavar, and Lâle Uluç, with contributions to the âNotes and Sourcesâ section by Serpil BaÄcı, Gülru NecipoÄlu, and Ebba Koch.
Gülru NecipoÄlu, (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.
CONTENTS
Gülru NecipoÄlu, Reflections on Thirty Years of Muqarnas
Benedict Cuddon, A Field Pioneered by Amateurs: The Collecting and Display of Islamic Art in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
Silvia Armando, Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881â1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies In Italy
AyÅin Yoltar-Yildirim, Raqqa: The Forgotten Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the Early Twentieth Century
D. Fairchild Ruggles, At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History: The Rajputs of South Asia
Jennifer Pruitt, Methodi in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid Era
Peter Christensen, âAs if she were Jerusalemâ: Placemaking in Sephardic Salonica
David J. Roxburgh, In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Haririâs MaqÄmÄt
Abolala Soudavar, The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza Salman
Lâle Uluç, An IskandarnÄma of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan
NOTES AND SOURCES
Serpil BaÄci, Presenting VaṣṣÄl Kalenderâs Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman Albums
Gülru NecipoÄlu, âVirtual Archaeologyâ in Light of a New Document on the Topkapı Palaceâs Waterworks and Earliest Buildings, circa 1509
Ebba Koch, The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction
Gülru NecipoÄlu, Reflections on Thirty Years of Muqarnas
Benedict Cuddon, A Field Pioneered by Amateurs: The Collecting and Display of Islamic Art in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
Silvia Armando, Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881â1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies In Italy
AyÅin Yoltar-Yildirim, Raqqa: The Forgotten Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the Early Twentieth Century
D. Fairchild Ruggles, At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History: The Rajputs of South Asia
Jennifer Pruitt, Methodi in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid Era
Peter Christensen, âAs if she were Jerusalemâ: Placemaking in Sephardic Salonica
David J. Roxburgh, In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Haririâs MaqÄmÄt
Abolala Soudavar, The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza Salman
Lâle Uluç, An IskandarnÄma of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan
NOTES AND SOURCES
Serpil BaÄci, Presenting VaṣṣÄl Kalenderâs Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman Albums
Gülru NecipoÄlu, âVirtual Archaeologyâ in Light of a New Document on the Topkapı Palaceâs Waterworks and Earliest Buildings, circa 1509
Ebba Koch, The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction
Those interested in the visual culture of the Islamic world, as well as Byzantinists, Europeanists, medievalists, historians of the early modern era, and architectural historians.