Muqarnas : an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world
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Muqarnas : an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world
（Muqarnas : an annual on Islamic art and architecture / edited by Oleg Grabar, v. 30）
Brill, 2013
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Celebrating thirty years of Muqarnas
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Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Description
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In this thirtieth-anniversary issue of Muqarnas, various scholars provide their thoughts on the publication's impact on the field of Islamic art. The volume contains articles on historiographical issues as well as others that emphasize the multicultural expansion of the field. There are also essays on Timurid and Safavid manuscript painting and al-Hariri's Maqamat.
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CONTENTS
Gulru Necipoglu, Reflections on Thirty Years of Muqarnas
Benedict Cuddon, A Field Pioneered by Amateurs: The Collecting and Display of Islamic Art in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
Silvia Armando, Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881-1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies In Italy
Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim, Raqqa: The Forgotten Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the Early Twentieth Century
D. Fairchild Ruggles, At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History: The Rajputs of South Asia
Jennifer Pruitt, Methodi in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid Era
Peter Christensen, "As if she were Jerusalem": Placemaking in Sephardic Salonica
David J. Roxburgh, In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Hariri's Maqamat
Abolala Soudavar, The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza Salman
Lale Uluc, An Iskandarnama of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan
NOTES AND SOURCES
Serpil Bagci, Presenting Vassal Kalender's Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman Albums
Gulru Necipoglu, "Virtual Archaeology" in Light of a New Document on the Topkapi Palace's Waterworks and Earliest Buildings, circa 1509
Ebba Koch, The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction
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