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Muqarnas: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : frontiers of Islamic art and architecture : essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday : volume 25

Muqarnas: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : frontiers of Islamic art and architecture : essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday : volume 25
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ISBN 9789004173279 (hbk.)
Title Muqarnas : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : frontiers of Islamic art and architecture : essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday : volume 25 / edited by Gülru Necipoğlu [and] Julia Bailey
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
Physical desc. x, 395 p. ; ill. (some col.), plans ; 28 cm.
Series Muqarnas 25
Note "The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture thirtieth anniversary special volume" -- T.p.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references
Contents In tribute to Oleg Grabar. -- Bibliography 1993-2007. -- 'Barefoot and naked': what did the Bedouin of the Arab conquests look like? / Patricia Crone. -- The namesake taboo / Michael Cook. -- The Dome of the Rock as palimpsest: ʻAbd al-Malik's grand narrative and Sultan Süleyman's glosses / Gülru Necipoğlu. -- Between East and West: the wall paintings of Samarra and the construction of Abbasid princely culture / Eva R. Hoffman. -- Andalusian roots and Abbasid homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakech / Yasser Tabbaa. -- Design without representation in medieval Egypt / Nasser Rabbat. -- A brief biography of Abu Zayd / Sheila S. Blair. -- A newly read inscription on the walls of Antalya, Turkey / Scott Redford. -- Marginal ornament: poetics, mimesis, and devotion in the Palace of the Lions / Cynthia Robinson. -- Weaving historical narratives: Beirut's last Mamluk monument / Howayda Al-Harithy. -- The 'Fatimid' doors of the Fakahani mosque in Cairo / Jonathan M. Bloom. -- From Timur to Tivoli: reflections on il giardino all'italiana / Lisa Golombek. -- The emperor's grief: two Mughal tombs / Anthony Welch. -- 'The eye is favored for seeing the writing's form': on the sensual and the sensuous in Islamic calligraphy / David J. Roxburgh. -- A Book of Kings produced and presented as a treatise on hunting / Tülay Artan. -- The SOAS Anvār-i Suhaylī: the journey of a 'reincarnated' manuscript / Mika Natif. -- Mostly modern miniatures: classical Persian painting in the early twentieth century / Marianna Shreve Simpson.
Subject Art, Islamic
Architecture, Islamic
Islamic calligraphy
Miniature painting, Iranian
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic
Added name(s) Necipoğlu, Gülru ed.
Bailey, Julia 1944- ed.
Added name(s) - Corporate Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
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