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Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Contents
CONTENTS
IN TRIBUTE TO OLEG GRABAR
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1993-2007
PATRICIA CRONE, "Barefoot and Naked": What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like?
MICHAEL COOK, The Namesake Taboo
GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU, The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest: ʿAbd al-Malik's Grand Narrative and Sultan Süleyman's Glosses
EVA HOFFMAN, Between East and West: The Wall Paintings of Samarra and the Construction of Abbasid Princely Culture
YASSER TABBAA, Andalusian Roots and Abbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakech
NASSER RABBAT, Design without Representation in Medieval Egypt
SHEILA BLAIR, A Brief Biography of Abu Zaid
SCOTT REDFORD, A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey
CYNTHIA ROBINSON, Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, and Devotion in the Palace of the Lions
HOWAYDA AL-HARITHY, Weaving Historical Narratives: Beirut's Last Mamluk Monument
JONATHAN BLOOM, The "Fatimid" Doors of the Fakahani Mosque in Cairo
LISA GOLOMBEK, From Timur to Tivoli: Reflections on il giardino all'italiana
ANTHONY WELCH, The Emperor's Grief: Two Mughal Tombs
DAVID ROXBURGH, "The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing's Form": On the Sensual and the Sensuous in Islamic Calligraphy
TÜLAY ARTAN, A Book of Kings Produced and Presented as a Treatise on Hunting
MIKA NATIF, The SOAS Anvār-i Suhaylī: The Journey of a "Reincarnated" Manuscript
MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON, Mostly Modern Miniatures: Classical Persian Painting in the Early Twentieth Century
