Muqarnas 21 Essays In Honor Of J.m. Rogers: An Annual On The Visual Culture Of The Islamic World (Muqarnas)

Adel T. Adamova, The Iconography of A Camel Fight......Page 13 Nurhan Atasoy, Ottoman Garden Pavilions and Tents......Page 27 Serpil Bağci, Old Images for New Texts and Contexts: Wandering Images in Islamic Book Painting......Page 33 Kaveh Bakhtiar, Palatial Towers of Nasir al-Din Shah......Page 45 Doris Behrens-Abouseif, European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court......Page 57 Michele Bernardini, 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......Page 67 John Carswell and Julian Henderson, Rhyton? Write On .........Page 85 Pedro Moura Carvalho, What Happened to the Mughal Furniture? The Role of the Imperial Workshops, the Decorative Motifs Used, and the Influence of Western Models......Page 91 Anna Contadini, A Wonderful World: Folios from a Dispersed Manuscript of the Nuzhat-Nāma......Page 107 Yolande Crowe, A Late Safavid Dish: A Cluster of Exotic Trees and Foliage......Page 133 Giovanni Curatola, A Sixteenth-Century Quarrel about Carpets......Page 141 Ibolya Gerelyes, Seeking the East in the West: The Zsolnay Phenomenon......Page 151 Rosalind A. Wade Haddon, Two Ceramic Pieces from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco......Page 165 Robert Irwin, Futuwwa: Chivalry and Gangsterism in Medieval Cairo......Page 173 A. A. Ivanov, A Second "Herat Bucket" and Its Congeners......Page 183 Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil, Signs of the Times: Arabic Signatures as a Measure of Acculturation in Norman Sicily......Page 193 Manuel Keene, Old World Jades outside China, from Ancient Times to the Fifteenth Century: Section One......Page 205 Nasser D Khalili, A Recently Acquired Incense Burner in the Khalili Collection......Page 227 G. R. D. King, The Paintings of the Pre-Islamic Ka'ba......Page 231 Mark Kramarovsky, The "Sky Of Wine" of Abu Nuwas and Three Glazed Bowls from the Golden Horde, Crimea......Page 243 Jens Kröger, On Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabi's Manuscript of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā of 964 (1557)......Page 251 Boris I. Marshak, An Early Seljuq Silver Bottle from Siberia......Page 267 Alison Ohta, Filigree Bindings of the Mamluk Period......Page 279 Bernard O'Kane, Chaghatai Architecture and the Tomb of Tughluq Temür at Almaliq......Page 289 Julian Raby, Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shu'aybiyya, and the "Classical Revival"......Page 301 Günsel Renda, Sindbādnāma: An Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in Iconography and Style......Page 323 Tim Stanley, The Books of Umur Bey......Page 335 Zeren Tanindi, Bibliophile Aghas (Eunuchs) at Topkapi Saray......Page 345 Rachel Ward, The Inscription on the Astrolabe by 'Abd al-Karim in the British Museum......Page 357 Owen Wright, The Sight of Sound......Page 371 Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Ottoman Ceramics in European Contexts......Page 385 Rogers, who was curator of Islamic art at the British Museum, taught at the U. of London, and curates the Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, is honored in this volume of 31 essays on Islamic art and architecture. Among the topics are the iconography of a camel fight, European arts and crafts at the Mamluk court, folios from the Nuzhat-nama, a second Herat bucket, Arabic signatures in Norman Sicily, paintings of the pre-Islamic Ka'ba, and the classical revival of Nur al-Din's Qastal al-Shu'aybiyya. Other chapters consider Mamluk bookbinding, Chaghatai architecture, Ottoman ceramics in Europe, and the bibliophile aghas at Topkapi Saray. The contributors are art historians and curators in the Turkey, Kuwait, Russia, Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, the UK, and the US. The volume is heavily illustrated with good quality color plates. It is not indexed. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR