| Muqarnas, Volume 30: Celebrating Thirty Years of Muqarnas Contributor(s): Necipoğlu, Gülru (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004255761 ISBN-13: 9789004255760 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $82.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Islamic Studies - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 700.482 |
| Series: Muqarnas |
| Physical Information: 396 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Maqāmāt. Authors include Benedict Cuddon, Silvia Armando, Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Jennifer Pruitt, Peter Christensen, David J. Roxburgh, Abolala Soudavar, and L le Ulu , with contributions to the "Notes and Sources" section by Serpil Bağcı, G lru Necipoğlu, and Ebba Koch. |