Muqarnas : an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world. Volume 27

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. The articles in Muqarnas 27 address topics such as spolia in medieval Islamic architecture, Islamic coinage in the seventh century, the architecture of the Alhambra from an environmental perspective, and Ottoman–Mamluk gift exchange in the fifteenth century. The volume also features a new section, entitled “Notes and Sources”, with pieces highlighting primary sources such as Akbar's Kathāsaritsāgara. Contributors include Ebba Koch, Elizabeth Lambourn, Elias Muhanna, Rina Avner, Kathryn Moore, Alicia Walker, Todd Willmert, Julia Gonnella, Zeynep Ertuğ, Jere Bacharach, Persis Berlekamp, Heike Franke, Vincenza Garofalo, and Fabrizio Agnello. Title ......Page 4 Copyright ......Page 5 Contents ......Page 6 Jere L. Bacharach, Signs of Sovereignty: The Shahāda, Qur'anic Verses, and the Coinage of 'Abdal-Malik......Page 8 Rina Avner, The Dome of the Rock in Light of the Development of Concentric Martyria in Jerusalem:Architecture and Architectural Iconography......Page 38 Kathryn Blair Moore, Textual Transmission and Pictorial Transformations: The Post-Crusade Imageof the Dome of the Rock in Italy......Page 58 Alicia Walker, Middle Byzantine Aesthetics of Power and the Incomparability of Islamic Art:The Architectural Ekphraseis of Nikolaos Mesarites......Page 86 Julia Gonnella, Columns and Hieroglyphs: Magic Spolia in Medieval Islamic Architecture ofNorthern Syria......Page 110 Elizabeth A. Lambourn, A Self-Conscious Art? Seeing Micro-Architecture in Sultanate South Asia......Page 128 Todd Willmert, Alhambra Palace Architecture: An Environmental Consideration of Its Inhabitation......Page 164 Elias I. Muhanna, The Sultan’s New Clothes: Ottoman–Mamluk Gift Exchange in the FifteenthCentury......Page 196 Persis Berlekamp, The Limits of Artistic Exchange in Fourteenth-Century Tabriz: The Paradox ofRashid al-Din’s Book on Chinese Medicine, Part I......Page 216 Zeynep Tarım ErtuĞ, The Depiction of Ceremonies in Ottoman Miniatures: Historical Record ora Matter of Protocol?......Page 258 Ebba Koch, The Mughal Emperor as Solomon, Majnun, and Orpheus, or the Album as a Think Tankfor Allegory......Page 284 Heike Franke, Akbar’s Kathāsaritsāgara: The Translator and Illustrations of an Imperial Manuscript......Page 320 Vincenza Garofalo, A Methodology for Studying Muqarnas: The Extant Examples in Palermo......Page 364 Fabrizio Agnello, The Painted Ceiling of the Nave of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: An Essay on ItsGeometric and Constructive Features......Page 414