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Muqarnas: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : volume 20

Muqarnas: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : volume 20
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ISBN 9004132074
9789004132078
Title Muqarnas : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : volume 20 / edited by Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher Leiden : Brill, 2003
Physical desc. 278 p. ; ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Series Muqarnas 20
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references
Contents The geometry of the Qur'an of Amajur: a preliminary study of proportion in early Arabic calligraphy / Alain Fouad George. -- A bestiary tale: text and image of the unicorn in the Kitāb na't al-ḥayawān (British Library Or. 2784) / Anna Contadini. -- Painting as persuasion: a visual defense of alchemy in an Islamic manuscript of the Mongol period / Persis Berlekamp. -- The painted-glass decoration of the mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifa'i in Cairo / Stefano Carboni. -- Modest luxuries: decorated lead-glazed pottery in the south of Bilad al-Sham (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) / Marcus Milwright. -- The Great Mosque of Córdoba in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Heather Ecker. -- Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the mid-fifteenth century / Deborah Howard. -- A building between the public and private realms of the Ottoman elite: the Sufi convent of Sokulla Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul / Zeynep Yürekli. -- A sartorial tribute to late Tanzimat Ottomanism: the Elbise-i 'Osmaniyye album / Ahmet Ersoy. -- Religious icon and national symbol: the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran / Kishwar Rizvi. -- Collecting by the book: the shaping of private and public collections / Mary McWilliams. -- The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that sees: a comparison of aesthetic phenomenology / Valérie Gonzalez.
Subject Art, Islamic
Art, Ottoman
Architecture, Islamic
Architecture, Ottoman
Islamic calligraphy
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic
Added name(s) Necipoğlu, Gülru
Added name(s) - Corporate Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
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