ISBN |
9004139648 (hbk.) |
Title |
Muqarnas : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : essays in honor of J. M. Rogers : volume 21 / guest editors : Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Anna Contadini |
Publisher |
Leiden : Brill, 2004 |
Physical desc. |
xii, 382 p. ; ill. (some col.), plans ; 28 cm. |
Series |
Muqarnas 21 |
Note |
CBL illustrations: p. 81 (In 07B.34); p. 83 (In 07A.7); p. 268 (Is. 1474); p. 269 (Is. 1495) |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references |
Contents |
The iconography of A camel fight / Adel T. Adamova. -- Ottoman garden pavilions and tents / Nurhan Atasoy. -- Old images for new texts and contexts: wandering images in Islamic book painting / Serpil Bağci. -- Palatial towers of Nasir al-Din Shah / Kaveh Bakhtiar. -- European arts and crafts at the Mamluk court / Doris Behrens-Abouseif. -- The illustrations of a manuscript of the travel account of François de la Boullaye le Gouz in the library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome / Michele Bernardini. -- Rhyton? Write on... / John Carswell and Julian Henderson. -- What happened to the Mughal furniture? The role of the imperial workshops, the decorative motifs used, and the influence of western models / Pedro Moura Carvalho. -- A wonderful world: folios from a dispersed manuscript of the Nuzhat-Nama / Anna Contadini. -- A late Safavid dish: a cluster of exotic trees and foilage / Yolande Crowe. -- A sixteenth-century quarrel about carpets / Giovanni Curatola. -- Seeking the east in the west: the Zsolnay phenomenon / Iboya Gerelyes. -- Two ceramic pieces from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco / Rosalind A. Wade Haddon. -- Futuwwa: chivalry and gangsterism in medieval Cairo / Robert Irwin. -- A second "Herat bucket" and its congeners / A. A. Ivanov. -- Signs of the times: Arabic signatures as a measure of acculturation in Norman Sicily. -- Old world jades outside China, from ancient times to the fifteenth century: section one / Manuel Keene. -- A recently acquired incense burner in the Khalili Collection / Nasser D. Khalili. -- The paintings of the pre-Islamic Ka'ba / G.R.D. King. -- The "Sky of wine" of Abu Nuwas and three glazed bowls from the Golden Horde, Crimea / Mark Kramarovsky. -- On Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabi's manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha of 964 (1557) / Jens Kröger. -- An early Seljuq silver bottle from Siberia / Boris I. Marshak. -- Filigree bindings of the Mamluk period / Alison Ohta. -- Chaghatai architecture and the tomb of Tughluq Temür at Almaliq / Bernard O'Kane. -- Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shu'aybiyya, and the "classical revival" / Julian Raby. -- Sindbadnama: an early Ottoman illustrated manuscript unique in iconography and style / Günsel Renda. -- The books of Umur Bey / Tim Stanley. -- Bibliophile aghas (eunuchs) at Topkapi Saray / Zeren Tanindi. -- The inscription on the astrolabe by 'Abd al-Karim in the British Museum / Rachel Ward. -- The sight of sound / Owen Wright. -- Ottoman ceramics in European contexts / Filiz Yenisehirlioğlu. |
Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07 |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1474 |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1495 |
Art, Islamic |
Art, Mogul |
Architecture, Islamic |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul |
Added name(s) |
Behrens-Abouseif, Doris ed. |
Contadini, Anna ed. |
Necipoğlu, Gülru |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture |