Muqarnas, Volume 17 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004116699 ISBN 13: 9789004116696

Publisher: Brill, 2000

Synopsis

Volume XXII

Table of Contents

Luke Treadwell, “Mihrab and ʿAnaza” or “Sacrum and Spear”? A Reconsideration of an Early Marwanid Silver Drachm
Hana Taragan, The “Speaking” Inkwell from Khurasan: Object as “World” in Iranian Medieval Metalwork
Yury Karev, Qarakhanid Wall Paintings in the Citadel of Samarqand: First Report and Preliminary Observations
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius and Silvia L. Harmsen, The Muqarnas Plate Found at Takht-i Sulayman: A New Interpretation
Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim, A 1498-99 Khusraw Va Shīrīn: Turning the Pages of an Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript SAMER AKKACH, The Poetics of Concealment: Al-Nabulusi’s Encounter with the Dome of the Rock
Ebba Koch, The Taj Mahal: Architecture, Symbolism, and Urban Significance
Caroline Finkel and Victor Ostapchuk, Outpost of Empire: An Appraisal of Ottoman Building Registers as Sources for the Archeology and Construction History of the Black Sea Fortress of Özi
Maurice Cerasi, The Urban and Architectural Evolution of the Istanbul Divanyolu: Urban Aesthetics and Ideology in Ottoman Town Building
Paolo Girardelli, Architecture, Identity, and Liminality: On the Use and Meaning of Catholic Spaces in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Susan Gilson Miller, Finding Order in the Moroccan City: The Ḥubus of the Great Mosque of Tangier as an Agent of Urban Change

About this title

About the Author

David J. Roxburgh, Ph.D. (1996) in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. He has published on arts of the book and albums, mainly form Iran and Central Asia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004116699
• ISBN 13: 9789004116696
• Binding: Leather Bound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202
• Editor: Necipoglu Gülru, Roxburgh David