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Muqarnas 37
Series: - Muqarnas, Volume: 37
Muqarnas 37 introduces new research on Islamic material culture ranging from Abbasid period mosaics to the early twentieth-century art market. Featured articles include Charles Melville’s introduction of a chronicle that sheds light on the architectural program of Shah ʿAbbas I, in particular his patronage of the dynastic shrine at Ardabil. From the Ottoman period, two essays discuss painted manuscripts: the first traces shifting representations of urban space in late sixteenth-century Istanbul, and the second focuses on sumptuous objects—namely, candy gardens and decorated palms—accompanying the extraordinary 1720 circumcision festival under Sultan Ahmed III. Another article seeks to unravel the mysterious origins of an unusually sophisticated painting of Mecca from the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Other topics covered are archaeological finds in Tunisia, and the legacy of Russian modernization efforts in the architecture of East Anatolia, especially the city of Kars. The Notes and Sources section examines the waqfiyya of the earliest surviving Halveti lodge in Amasya, as well as the function of various types of lamps in contemporary Pakistani Sufi shrines.
Gülru Necipoğlu, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has been the editor of Muqarnas since 1993.
Contents
Glaire D. Anderson, Mind and Hand: Early Scientific Instruments from al-Andalus, and ʿAbbas ibn Firnas in the Cordoban Umayyad Court
Bea Leal, The Abbasid Mosaic Tradition and the Great Mosque of Damascus
Friederike Weis, How the Persian Qalam Caused the Chinese Brush to Break: The Bahram Mirza Album Revisited
Charles Melville, Shah ʿAbbas’s Patronage of the Dynastic Shrine at Ardabil
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Picturing the Square, Streets, and Denizens of Early Modern Istanbul: Practices of Urban Space and Shifts in Visuality
Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan, Naḫ̮ıls and Candy Gardens in the 1720 Imperial Festival
Deniz Beyazıt, Defining Ottoman Realism in the Uppsala Mecca Painting
Neşe Gurallar, Russian Modernization in East Anatolia: The Case of Kars
Ridha Moumni, Archaeology and Cultural Policy in Ottoman Tunisia. Part I: Muhammad Khaznadar (1865–70)
NOTES AND SOURCES
Hasan Karataş, An Idiosyncratic Building in Amasya? Early Ottoman Architecture and the Waqfiyya of the Yakub Pasha Çilehane-Mosque
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Light at Pakistani Sufi Shrines: Notes on Lampstands, Lamp Niches, and Lamp Houses
Richard Piran McClary, Calouste Gulbenkian, His Mīnāʾī Ware, and the Changing Islamic Art Market in the Early Twentieth Century
Glaire D. Anderson, Mind and Hand: Early Scientific Instruments from al-Andalus, and ʿAbbas ibn Firnas in the Cordoban Umayyad Court
Bea Leal, The Abbasid Mosaic Tradition and the Great Mosque of Damascus
Friederike Weis, How the Persian Qalam Caused the Chinese Brush to Break: The Bahram Mirza Album Revisited
Charles Melville, Shah ʿAbbas’s Patronage of the Dynastic Shrine at Ardabil
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Picturing the Square, Streets, and Denizens of Early Modern Istanbul: Practices of Urban Space and Shifts in Visuality
Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan, Naḫ̮ıls and Candy Gardens in the 1720 Imperial Festival
Deniz Beyazıt, Defining Ottoman Realism in the Uppsala Mecca Painting
Neşe Gurallar, Russian Modernization in East Anatolia: The Case of Kars
Ridha Moumni, Archaeology and Cultural Policy in Ottoman Tunisia. Part I: Muhammad Khaznadar (1865–70)
NOTES AND SOURCES
Hasan Karataş, An Idiosyncratic Building in Amasya? Early Ottoman Architecture and the Waqfiyya of the Yakub Pasha Çilehane-Mosque
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Light at Pakistani Sufi Shrines: Notes on Lampstands, Lamp Niches, and Lamp Houses
Richard Piran McClary, Calouste Gulbenkian, His Mīnāʾī Ware, and the Changing Islamic Art Market in the Early Twentieth Century