Muqarnas, Volume 30: Celebrating Thirty Years of Muqarnas

by Gulru Necipoglu (Editor), Leal A. Leal (Managing editor)

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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. Authors include Benedict Cuddon, Silvia Armando, Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Jennifer Pruitt, Peter Christensen, David J. Roxburgh, Abolala Soudavar, and Lale Uluc, with contributions to the "Notes and Sources" section by Serpil Bagci, Gulru Necipoglu, and Ebba Koch. Read Less

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 ... Read More