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Muqarnas: an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world : volume 27

Muqarnas: an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world : volume 27
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ISBN 9004185119 (hbk.)
9789004185111 (hbk.)
Title Muqarnas : an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world : volume 27 / editor : Gülru Necipoğlu ; managing editor : Karen A. Leal
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010
Physical desc. 447 p. ; ill. (some col.), plans ; 28 cm.
Series Muqarnas 27
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Signs of sovereignty: The Shahāda, Qurʼanic verses, and the coinage of ʻAbd al-Malik / Jere L. Bacharach -- The Dome of the Rock in light of the development of concentric martyria in Jerusalem: architecture and architectural iconography / Rina Avner -- Textual transmission and pictorial transformations: the post-crusade image of the Dome of the Rock in Italy / Kathryn Blair Moore -- Middle Byzantine aesthetics of power and the incomparability of Islamic art: the architectural ekphraseis of Nikolaos Mesarites / Alicia Walker -- Columns and hieroglyphs: magic spolia in medieval Islamic architecture of northern Syria / Julia Gonnella -- A self-conscious art? seeing micro-architecture in sultanate South Asia / Elizabeth A. Lambourn -- Alhambra Palace architecture: an environmental consideration of its inhabitation / Todd Willmert -- The sultan's new clothes: Ottoman-Mamluk gift exchange in the fifteenth century / Elias I. Muhanna -- The limits of artistic exchange in fourteenth-century Tabriz: the paradox of Rashid al-Din's book on Chinese medicine, part I / Persis Berlekamp -- The depiction of ceremonies in Ottoman miniatures: historical record or a matter of protocol? / Zeynep Tarim Ertuğ -- The Mughal emperor as Soloman, Majnun, and Orpheus, or the album as a think tank for allegory / Ebba Koch -- Notes and sources. Akbar's Kathāsaritsāgara: the translator and illustrations of an imperial manuscript / Heike Franke -- A methodology for studying Muqarnas: the extant examples in Palermo / Vincenza Garofalo -- The painted ceiling of the nave of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: an essay on its geometric and constructive features / Fabrizio Agnello.
Subject Islamic art
Islamic architecture
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
Islamic miniature painting
Added name(s) Necipoğlu, Gülru ed.
Leal, Karen A. ed.
Added name(s) - Corporate Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
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