Muqarnas, Volume 20: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2003
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Item Description:"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts."
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The geometry of the Qurʼan of Amajur : a preliminary study of proportion in early Arabic calligraphy / Alain Fouad George -- A bestiary tale : text and image of the unicorn in the Kitāb naʻt al-ḥayawān (British Library Or. 2784) / Anna Contadini -- Painting as persuasion : a visual defense of alchemy in an Islamic manuscript of the Mongol Period / Persis Berlekamp -- The painted-glass decoration of the Mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifaʻi in Cairo / Stefano Carboni -- Modest luxuries : decorated lead-glazed pottery in the south of Bilad al-Sham (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) / Marcus Milwright -- The Great Mosque of Córdoba in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Heather Ecker -- Death in Damascus : Venetians in Syria in the mid-fifteenth century / Deborah Howard -- A building between the public and private realms of the Ottoman elite : the Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul / Zeynep Yürekli -- A sartorial tribute to late Tanzimat Ottomanism : the Elbise-i ʻOs̲māniyye album / Ahmet Ersoy -- Religious icon and national symbol : the Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran / Kishwar Rizvi -- Collecting by the book : the shaping of private and public collections / Mary McWilliams -- The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that sees : a comparison of aesthetic phenomenology / Valérie Gonzalez
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
ISBN:1423714520
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