Product Description: 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 Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources...read more

ContentsChristopher S. Taylor, 'Reevaluating the Shi'i Role in the Development of Monumental Islamic Funerary Architecture: The Case of Egypt.'Nuha N.N. Khoury, 'The Mihrab Image: Commemorative Themes in Medieval Islamic Architecture.'Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'The Facade of the Aqmar Mosque in the Context of Fatimid Ceremonial.'Mohammad Al-Asad, 'The Mosque of Muhammad 'Ali in Cairo.'Marilyn Jenkins, 'Early Medieval Islamic Pottery: The Eleventh Century Reconsidered.'Robert B. Mason, Ronald M. Farquhar, and Patrick E. Smith, 'Lead-Isotope Analysis of Islamic Glazes: An Exploratory Study.'A. Ghouchani and C. Adle, 'A Sphero-Conical Vessel as "Fuqqā 'a, or a Gourd for 'Beer.''Summer S. Kenesson, 'Nasrid Luster Pottery: The Alhambra Vases.'Massumeh Farhad, 'An Artist's Impression: Mu'in Musavvir's "Tiger Attacking a Youth.'Barbara Finster, 'An Outline of the History of Islamic Religious Architecture in Yemen.'Robert Hillenbrand, 'Turco-Iranian Elements in the Medieval Architecture of Pakistan: The Case of the Tomb of Rukn-i 'Alam at Multan.'Subhash Parihar, 'A Little-Known Mughal College in India: The Madrasa of Shaykh Chillie at Thanesar.'Wijdan Ali, 'The Status of Islamic Art in the Twentieth Century.'

Product Description: La aparición del pueblo musulmán modificó el rumbo de la historia. Allá donde se extendió su poder e influencia nació un nuevo arte rico y complejo cuyos componentes examina Grabar en esta obra fundamental. Este libro se compone de siete ensayos relacionados entre sí por una pregunta que se define en el primero de ellos: s...read more

The story of the Dome of the Rock is told in this presentation that combines what is known of the beautiful Muslim shrine in Jerusalem's Old City from the perspectives and recollections of past observers with the broader historical, cultural, and aesthetic implications of the monument.

Product Description: Islamic Visual Culture, 1100–1800 is the second in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field...read more

Product Description: Islamic Art and Beyond is the third in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field...read more

Product Description: Jerusalem is the final volume in a set of four selections of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field...read more

Product Description: The art and architecture of Islam from 650 A.D. to 1250 A.D. Hundreds of B&W photos of these arts all on semi-gloss paper.

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Product Description: Edited by Oleg Grabar, one of the leading experts in Islamic art history, along with Cynthia Robinson, this book breaks new ground in the field of Middle Eastern art history. While illuminated manuscripts from Persia and the Arab world are outstanding masterpieces of art, only recent scholarship in Islamic visual culture includes written sources in its consideration of the relationships between the textual and visual worlds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A wide appreciation of Persian art has only been felt in the last hundred years or so. In this study, Oleg Grabar presents a good introduction to Persian painting, especially miniatures illustrating literary works, along with a small number of murals and decorated ceramics. Dating from c.1300 to c.1700, this is a history of the technique of painting, of its main techniques and subject matter, the use of space and colour, the depiction of emotion, and so on. The book ably combines the historical framework with an aesthetic appreciation of the art, with many illustrated examples. (view table of contents)

A colorful tour of late antiquity covers late Roman, Byzantine, Sassanian, and early Islamic culture and discusses topics ranging from angels in Islam, concubinage, barbarians and ethnicity, and empire building. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In this richly illustrated book, Oleg Grabar shares a veteran art historian's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period...read more

Product Description: The tenth volume of an annual publication on Islamic art and architecture. Coverage ranges from the author portrait in 13th-century Arabic manuscripts to an interpretation of the Mosque of Sinan Pasha in Cairo.