Muqarnas, Volume 20
Published on 31. October 2003
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-90-04-13207-8 (ISBN)
Description
Muqarnas , the well-respected annual of Islamic art and architecture, is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U. and MIT. The 20th volume features 12 articles on topics that include geometry in a 9th-century Koran, the defense of alchemy in a Mongol era manuscript, t
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
1161 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-13207-8 (9789004132078)
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Content
CONTENTS
Alain Fouad George, The Geometry of the Qur?an of Amajur: A Preliminary Study of Proportion in Early Arabic Calligraphy
Anna Contadini, A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitab na?t al-?ayawan (British Library Or. 2784)
Persis Berlekamp, Painting as Persuasion: A Visual Defense of Alchemy in an Islamic Manuscript of the Mongol Period
Stefano Carboni, The Painted-Glass Decoration of the Mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifa?i in Cairo
Marcus Milwright, Modest Luxuries: Decorated Lead-glazed Pottery in the South of Bilad al-Sham (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)
Heather Ecker, The Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Deborah Howard, Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the Mid-Fifteenth Century
Zeynep Yuerekli, A Building between the Public and Private Realms of the Ottoman Elite: The Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul
Ahmet Ersoy, A Sartorial Tribute to Late Tanzimat Ottomanism: The Elbise-i ?OsmaniyyeAlbum
Kishwar Rizvi, Religious Icon and National Symbol: The Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran
Mary McWilliams, Collecting by the Book: The Shaping of Private and Public Collections
Valerie Gonzalez, The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that Sees: A Comparison of Aesthetic Phenomenology
Alain Fouad George, The Geometry of the Qur?an of Amajur: A Preliminary Study of Proportion in Early Arabic Calligraphy
Anna Contadini, A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitab na?t al-?ayawan (British Library Or. 2784)
Persis Berlekamp, Painting as Persuasion: A Visual Defense of Alchemy in an Islamic Manuscript of the Mongol Period
Stefano Carboni, The Painted-Glass Decoration of the Mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifa?i in Cairo
Marcus Milwright, Modest Luxuries: Decorated Lead-glazed Pottery in the South of Bilad al-Sham (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)
Heather Ecker, The Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Deborah Howard, Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the Mid-Fifteenth Century
Zeynep Yuerekli, A Building between the Public and Private Realms of the Ottoman Elite: The Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul
Ahmet Ersoy, A Sartorial Tribute to Late Tanzimat Ottomanism: The Elbise-i ?OsmaniyyeAlbum
Kishwar Rizvi, Religious Icon and National Symbol: The Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran
Mary McWilliams, Collecting by the Book: The Shaping of Private and Public Collections
Valerie Gonzalez, The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that Sees: A Comparison of Aesthetic Phenomenology