Muqarnas, Volume 28

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21147-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 1256 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.

Muqarnas 28 contains articles on a number of topics including shadow puppets, the concept of fann, Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, and seventeenth-century Persian painting. The "Notes and Sources" section includes a discussion of an early fifteenth-century Khamsa in the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Contributors include: Alain George, Marcus Milwright, David J. Roxburgh, Adam Mestyan, Amy S. Landau, Lisa Golombek, Suna Çagaptay, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Filiz Çagman and Zeren Tanindi, Yael Rice, and †Oleg Grabar

Zielgruppe

Those interested in the visual culture of the Islamic world, as well as Byzantinists, Europeanists, medievalists, historians of the early modern era, and architectural historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Necipo&

Necipoglu, Gülru

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Editor’s Foreword: In Memoriam: Oleg Grabar (1929–2011).
Bibliography of Professor Oleg Grabar, 2007–2010.
Alain F. George, The Illustrations of the Maqamat and the Shadow Play.
Marcus Milwright, On the Date of Paul Kahle’s Egyptian Shadow Puppets.
Adam Mestyan, Arabic Lexicography and European Aesthetics: The Origin of Fann.
Amy S. Landau, From Poet to Painter: Allegory and Metaphor in A Seventeenth-Century Persian
Painting by Muhammad Zaman, Master of Farangi-Sazi.
Lisa Golombek, The So-Called “Turabeg Khanom” Mausoleum in Kunya Urgench: Problems of
Attribution.
Suna Çagaptay, Frontierscape: Reconsidering Bithynian Structures and Their Builders on the
Byzantine–Ottoman Cusp.
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Complex of Sultan Mahmud I in Cairo.
NOTES AND SOURCES
Filiz Çagman and Zeren Tanindi, Selections from Jalayirid Books in the Libraries of Istanbul.
Yael Rice, An Early Fifteenth-Century Khamsa from Shiraz in the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Oleg Grabar†, On Knowledge and Education.

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.