Muqarnas, Volume 30: Celebrating Thirty Years of Muqarnas

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25576-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 1583 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 this thirtieth-anniversary issue of Muqarnas, various scholars provide their thoughts on the publication’s impact on the field of Islamic art. The volume contains articles on historiographical issues as well as others that emphasize the multicultural expansion of the field. There are also essays on Timurid and Safavid manuscript painting and al-Hariri’s Maqamat.

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

Weitere Mitwirkende

Leal, Leal A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Gülru Necipoglu, Reflections on Thirty Years of Muqarnas

Benedict Cuddon, A Field Pioneered by Amateurs: The Collecting and Display of Islamic Art in Early Twentieth-Century Boston

Silvia Armando, Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881–1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies In Italy

Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim, Raqqa: The Forgotten Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the Early Twentieth Century

D. Fairchild Ruggles, At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History: The Rajputs of South Asia

Jennifer Pruitt, Methodi in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid Era

Peter Christensen, “As if she were Jerusalem”: Placemaking in Sephardic Salonica

David J. Roxburgh, In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Hariri’s Maqamat

Abolala Soudavar, The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza Salman

Lâle Uluç, An Iskandarnama of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan

NOTES AND SOURCES

Serpil Bagci, Presenting Vassal Kalender’s Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman Albums

Gülru Necipoglu, “Virtual Archaeology” in Light of a New Document on the Topkapi Palace’s Waterworks and Earliest Buildings, circa 1509

Ebba Koch, The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction

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.