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Title: Muqarnas : an annual on Islamic art and architecture. Volume 1 / edited by Oleg Grabar.
Author: Grabar, Oleg.
Grabar, Oleg.
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
General Notes: Title also in Arabic script., Title also in Arabic script.
"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harrvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.", Title also in Arabic script.
"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.", Title also in Arabic script.

Publisher: Yale University Press,
Publication Place: New Haven :
ISBN: 0300028377
Subject: Architecture, Islamic.
Art, Islamic.
Art islamique -- Histoire.
Architecture islamique -- Histoire.
Islamic architecture -- History.
Art islamique.
Architecture islamique.
Islamic art.
Islamic architecture.
Islamic art -- History.
Art islamique -- Histoire.
Architecture islamique -- Histoire.
Islamic architecture.
Islamic art.
Contents: Reflections on the study of Islamic art / Oleg Grabar -- The mosque of al-Hهakim in Cairo / Jonathan M. Bloom -- The cult of °Alid saints in the Fatimid monuments of Cairo. Part I, the mosque of al-Aqmar / Caroline Williams -- Christian themes in thirteenth-century Islamic metalwork / Ranee A. Katzenstein and Glenn D. Lowry -- The octagonal pavilion at Natanz / Sheila S. Blair -- The resilience of the Friday mosque : the case of Herat / Lisa Golombek -- Dating Ottoman Turkish works in the Saz style / Walter B. Denny --The Tughluqs, master builders of the Delhi sultanate / Anthony Welch and Howard Crane -- Four Mughal caravanserais built during the reigns of Jahهangir and Shهah Jahهan / Wayne E. Begley -- Type and variation : Berber collective dwellings of the northwestern Sahara / William J.R. Curtis.
Reflections on the study of Islamic art / Oleg Grabar -- The mosque of al-H�akim in Cairo / Jonathan M. Bloom -- The cult of �Alid saints in the Fatimid monuments of Cairo. Part I, the mosque of al-Aqmar / Caroline Williams -- Christian themes in thirteenth-century Islamic metalwork / Ranee A. Katzenstein and Glenn D. Lowry -- The octagonal pavilion at Natanz / Sheila S. Blair -- The resilience of the Friday mosque: the case of Herat / Lisa Golombek -- Dating Ottoman Turkish works in the Saz style / Walter B. Denny --The Tughluqs, master builders of the Delhi sultanate / Anthony Welch and Howard Crane -- Four Mughal caravanserais built during the reigns of Jah�angir and Sh�ah Jah�an / Wayne E. Begley -- Type and variation: Berber collective dwellings of the northwestern Sahara / William J.R. Curtis.

Physical Description: ix, 209 pages. : illustrations ;

Publication Date: 1983.