| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 382 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
The iconography of A camel fight / Adel T. Adamova -- Ottoman garden pavilions and tents / Nurhan Atasoy -- Old images for new texts and contexts : wandering images in Islamic book painting / Serpi̇l Bağci -- Palatial towers of Nasir al-Din Shah / Kaveh Bakhtiar -- European arts and crafts at the Mamluk Court / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- The illustrations of a manuscript of the travel account of François de la Boullaye le Gouz in the Library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome / Michele Bernardini -- Rhyton? Write on / John Carswell and Julian Henderson -- What happened to the Mughal furniture? The role of the imperial workshops, the decorative motifs used, and the influence of western models / Pedro Moura Carvalho -- A wonderful world : folios from a dispersed manuscript of the Nuzhat-Nāma / Anna Contadini -- A late Safavid dish : a cluster of exotic trees and foliage / Yolande Crowe -- A sixteenth-century quarrel about carpets / Giovanni Curatola -- Seeking the East in the West : the Zsolnay phenomenon / Ibolya Gerelyes -- Two ceramic pieces from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco / Rosalind A. Wade Haddon -- Futuwwa : chivalry and gangsterism in medieval Cairo / Robert Irwin -- A second "Herat bucket" and it congeners / A.A. Ivanov -- Signs of the times : Arabic signatures as a measure of acculturation in Norman Sicily / Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil -- Old world jades outside China, from ancient times to the fifteenth century : section one / Manuel Keene -- A recently acquired incense burner in the Khalili Collection / Nasser D. Khalili -- The paintings of the pre-Islamic Kaʻba / G.R.D. King -- The "sky of wine" of Abu Nuwas and three glazed bowls from the Golden Horde, Crimea / Mark Kramarovsky |
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On Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabi's manuscript of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā of 964 (1557) / Jens Kröger -- An early Seljuq silver bottle from Siberia / Boris I. Marshak -- Filigree bindings of the Mamluk Period / Alison Ohta -- Chaghatai architecture and the Tomb of Tughluq Temür at Almaliq / Bernard O'Kane -- Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shuʻaybiyya, and the "classical revival" / Julian Raby -- Sindbādnāma : an early Ottoman illustrated manuscript unique in iconography and style / Günsel Renda -- The books of Umur Bey / Tim Stanley -- Bibliophile aghas (eunuchs) at Topkapi Saray / Zeren Tanindi -- The inscription on the astrolabe by ʻAbd al-Karim in the British Museum / Rachel Ward -- The sight of sound / Owen Wright -- Ottoman ceramics in European contexts / Fi̇li̇z Yenişehi̇rlioğlu |
| Notes |
"Essays in honor of J.M. Rogers." |
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"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Islamic art.
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Islamic architecture.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Islamic architecture
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Islamic art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rogers, J. M
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Necipoğlu, Gülru
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Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
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Contadini, Anna
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Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
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| ISBN |
9781429427852 |
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142942785X |
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