Muqarnas, Volume 27

Editor: Gülru Necipoğlu. Managing Editor: Karen A. Leal

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.

The articles in Muqarnas 27 address topics such as spolia in medieval Islamic architecture, Islamic coinage in the seventh century, the architecture of the Alhambra from an environmental perspective, and Ottoman–Mamluk gift exchange in the fifteenth century. The volume also features a new section, entitled “Notes and Sources”, with pieces highlighting primary sources such as Akbar’s Kathāsaritsāgara.

Contributors include Ebba Koch, Elizabeth Lambourn, Elias Muhanna, Rina Avner, Kathryn Moore, Alicia Walker, Todd Willmert, Julia Gonnella, Zeynep Ertuğ, Jere Bacharach, Persis Berlekamp, Heike Franke, Vincenza Garofalo, and Fabrizio Agnello.

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Editor:

Gülru Necipoğlu

Karen Leal

Category:

Middle East and Islamic Studies - Archaeology, Art & Architecture

BIC2:

History of art / art & design styles, Islamic countries

Volume:

Series:

Muqarnas

ISSN:

0732-2992

ISBN13:

9789004185111

Publication Year:

2010

Edition info:

Version:

Hardback

Publication Type:

Reference Work

Pages, Illustrations:

vi, 450 pp. with b/w and colour ills.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Publication Value:

Yearbook

Biographical note Readership

Biographical note

Gülru Necipoğlu, (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.

Readership

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