Muqarnas : an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world. Volume 27 / editor, Gülru Necipoğlu ; managing editor, Karen A. Leal. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - 1 online resource (447 pages) : illustrations. - Muqarnas, v. 27 0732-2992 ; . - Studies in Islamic art and architecture ; v. 27. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Signs of sovereignty: The Shahāda, Qur'anic verses, and the coinage of 'Abd al-Malik / Jere L. Bacharach -- The Dome of the Rock in light of the development of concentric martyria in Jerusalem: Architecture and architectural iconography / Rina Avner -- Textual transmission and pictorial transformations: The post-crusade image of the Dome of the Rock in Italy / Kathryn Blair Moore -- Middle Byzantine aesthetics of power and the incomparability of Islamic art: The architectural ekphraseis of Nikolaos Mesarites / Alicia Walker -- Columns and hieroglyphs: Magic spolia in medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Syria / Julia Gonnella -- A self-conscious art? Seeing micro-architecture in Sultanate South Asia / Elizabeth A. Lambourn -- Alhambra Palace architecture: An environmental consideration of its inhabitation / Todd Willmert -- The Sultan's new clothes: Ottoman-Mamluk gift exchange in the fifteenth century / Elias I. Muhanna -- The limits of artistic exchange in fourteenth-century Tabriz: The paradox of Rashid al-Din's Book on Chinese medicine, Part I / Persis Berlekamp -- The depiction of ceremonies in Ottoman miniatures: Historical record or a matter of protocol? / Zeynep Tarım Ertug -- The Mughal emperor as Solomon, Majnun, and Orpheus, or the album as a think tank for allegory / Ebba Koch -- Akbar's Kathāsaritsāgara: The translator and illustrations of an imperial manuscript / Heike Franke -- A methodology for studying muqarnas: The extant examples in Palermo / Vincenza Garofalo -- The painted ceiling of the nave of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: An essay on its geometric and constructive features / Fabrizio Agnello.

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Islamic arts.
Islamic architecture.
Architecture, Islamic.
India--Antiquities.
Islamic art.
ART--Reference.
ART--Performance.
Islamic architecture.
Islamic arts.


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