Muqarnas, Volume 10: Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar(10 Muqarnas)

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 Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Table of Contents:
Oleg Grabar Bibliography, 1953–93 ANNABELLE SIMON-CAHN, The Fermo Chasuble of St. Thomas Becket and Hispano-Mauresque Cosmological Silks: Some Speculations on the Adaptive Reuse of Textiles EVA R. HOFFMAN, The Author Portrait in Thirteenth-Century Arabic Manuscripts: A New Islamic Context for a Late-Antique Tradition JONATHAN M. BLOOM, On the Transmission of Designs in Early Islamic Architecture YASSER TABBAA, Survivals and Archaisms in the Architecture of Northern Syria, ca. 1080–ca. 1150 HAFEZ K. CHEHAB, On the Identification of ʿAnjar (ʿAyn al-Jarr) as an Umayyad Foundation GHAZI BISHEH, From Castellum to Palatium: Umayyad Mosaic Pavements from Qasr al-Hallabat in Jordan NUHA N. N. KHOURY, The Dome of the Rock, the Kaʿba, and Ghumdan: Arab Myths and Umayyad Monuments NASSER RABBAT, The Dome of the Rock Revisited: Some Remarks on al-Wasiti’s Accounts BEATRICE ST. LAURENT and ANDRÁS RIEDLMAYER, Restorations of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock and Their Political Significance, 1537–1928 ARCHIE G. WALLS, Ottoman Restorations to the Sabil and to the Madrasa of Qaytbay in Jerusalem M. TAREK SWELIM, An Interpretation of the Mosque of Sinan Pasha in Cairo MOHAMMAD AL-ASAD, The Mosque of al-Rifaʿi in Cairo KHALED ASFOUR, The Domestication of Knowledge: Cairo at the Turn of the Century DANIEL PIPES, Egyptian Family Life in 1919 JAMEL AKBAR, Gates as Signs of Autonomy in Muslim Towns SCOTT REDFORD, The Seljuqs of Rum and the Antique HOWARD CRANE, Evliya Çelebi’s Journey through the Pamphylian Plain in 1671–72 GÜLRU NECIPOĞLU, Challenging the Past: Sinan and the Competitive Discourse of Early-Modern Islamic Architecture ESIN ATIL, The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival TÜLAY ARTAN, The Kadırga Palace: An Architectural Reconstruction AYDA AREL, Gothic Towers and Baroque Mihrabs: The Post-Classical Architecture of Aegean Anatolia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries WALTER B. DENNY, Quotations in and out of Context: Ottoman Turkish Art and European Orientalist Painting FAY ARRIEH FRICK, Possible Sources for Some Motifs of Decoration on Islamic Ceramics LISA GOLOMBEK, The Paysage as Funerary Imagery in the Timurid Period THOMAS W. LENTZ, Dynastic Imagery in Early Timurid Wall Painting SHEILA S. BLAIR, The Development of the Illustrated Book in Iran EDWARD J. KEALL, “One Man’s Mede Is Another Man’s Persian; One Man’s Coconut Is Another Man’s Grenade” MASSUMEH FARHAD and MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON, Sources for the Study of Safavid Painting and Patronage, or Méfiez-vous de Qazi Ahmad ZAHRA FARIDANY-AKHAVAN, All the King’s Toys SHEILA R. CANBY, Depictions of Buddha Sakyamuni in the Jamiʿ al-Tavarikh and the Majmaʿ al-Tavarikh ANTHONY WELCH, Architectural Patronage and the Past: The Tughluq Sultans of lndia MICHAEL BRAND, Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture PERWEEN HASAN, The Footprint of the Prophet MICHAEL W. MEISTER, Style and Idiom in the Art of Uparāmala DEBORAH KLIMBURG-SALTER, Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan (Nigar) Reconsidered NANCY SHATZMAN STEINHARDT, The Tangut Royal Tombs near Yinchuan ZAKARIA ALI, Notes on the Sejarah Melayu and Royal Malay Art Cumulative Authors’ Index, Muqarnas vols. 1–10 (1982–92)

About the Author :
Gülru Necipoglu, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has been the editor of Muqarnas since 1993.