Muqarnas, Volume 23

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-25944-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Contributors include: Doris Behrens-Abouseif; Stephennie Mulder; Chad Kia; Maryam Ekhtiar; Abdolhamid Keshmirshekan; Willem Floor; Elizabeth Lambourn; Hussein Keshani, Ilknur Aktug Kolay and Serpil çelik; Vildan Serdaroglu;
Selin Ipek; Marcus Milwright

Autoren/Hrsg.

Necipo&

Necipoglu, Gülru

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

DORIS BEHRENS-ABOUSEIF, The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria
STEPHENNIE MULDER, The Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi'i
ANNA CONTADINI, A Question in Arab Painting: The Ibn al-Sufi Manuscript in Tehran and Its Art-Historical Connections
CHAD KIA, Is the Bearded Man Drowning? Picturing the Figurative in a Late-Fifteenth-Century Painting from Herat
MARYAM EKHTIAR, Practice Makes Perfect: The Art of Calligraphy Exercises (Siyah Mashq) in Iran
ABDOLHAMID KESHMIRSHEKAN, Discourses on Postrevolutionary Iranian Art: Neotraditionalism during the 1990s
WILLEM FLOOR, The Woodworking Craft and Its Products in Iran
ELIZABETH LAMBOURN, Brick, Timber, and Stone: Building Materials and the Construction of Islamic Architectural History in Gujarat
HUSSEIN KESHANI, Architecture and the Twelver Shi'i Tradition: The Great Imambara Complex of Lucknow
I$LKNUR AKTUG KOLAY AND SERPIL ÇELIK, Ottoman Stone Acquisition in the Mid-Sixteenth Century: The Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul
VILDAN SERDAROGLU, When Literature and Architecture Meet: Architectural Images of the Beloved and the Lover in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poetry
SELIN IPEK, Ottoman Ravzva-i Mutahhara Covers Sent from Istanbul to Medina with the Surre Processions
MARCUS MILWRIGHT, So Despicable a Vessel: Representations of Tamerlane in Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Über Autor(innen)

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.