Frontiers of Islamic art and architecture : essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday

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Frontiers of Islamic art and architecture : essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday

edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Julia Bailey

(Muqarnas : an annual on Islamic art and architecture / edited by Oleg Grabar, v. 25)

Brill, 2008

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"The Aga Khan program for Islamic architecture, thirtieth anniversary special volume"

Includes bibliographical references (p. [viii]-x)

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Description

Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS IN TRIBUTE TO OLEG GRABAR BIBLIOGRAPHY 1993-2007 PATRICIA CRONE, "Barefoot and Naked": What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like? MICHAEL COOK, The Namesake Taboo GUELRU NECIPOGLU, The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest: 'Abd al-Malik's Grand Narrative and Sultan Suleyman's Glosses EVA HOFFMAN, Between East and West: The Wall Paintings of Samarra and the Construction of Abbasid Princely Culture YASSER TABBAA, Andalusian Roots and Abbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakech NASSER RABBAT, Design without Representation in Medieval Egypt SHEILA BLAIR, A Brief Biography of Abu Zaid SCOTT REDFORD, A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey CYNTHIA ROBINSON, Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, and Devotion in the Palace of the Lions HOWAYDA AL-HARITHY, Weaving Historical Narratives: Beirut's Last Mamluk Monument JONATHAN BLOOM, The "Fatimid" Doors of the Fakahani Mosque in Cairo LISA GOLOMBEK, From Timur to Tivoli: Reflections on il giardino all'italiana ANTHONY WELCH, The Emperor's Grief: Two Mughal Tombs DAVID ROXBURGH, "The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing's Form": On the Sensual and the Sensuous in Islamic Calligraphy TUELAY ARTAN, A Book of Kings Produced and Presented as a Treatise on Hunting MIKA NATIF, The SOAS Anvar-i Suhayli: The Journey of a "Reincarnated" Manuscript MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON, Mostly Modern Miniatures: Classical Persian Painting in the Early Twentieth Century

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  • NCID
    BA89264050
  • ISBN
    • 9789004173279
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Leiden
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 395 p.
  • Size
    28 cm
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