Muqarnas, Volume 29

By Gülru Necipolu

Book Overview

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are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Muqarnas 29 features a subset of articles involving cross-cultural interactions between East and West as manifested in the visual culture of the region. Articles addressing this theme include "Visual Cosmopolitanism and Creative Translation: Artistic Conversations with Renaissance Italy in Mehmed II's Constantinople," by G lru Necipoğlu, and "The Bride of Trebizond: Turks And Turkmens on a Florentine Wedding Chest, circa 1460," by Cristelle Baskins. The "Notes and Sources" section highlights new research on the medieval town of Hulbuk in Central Asia.

Contributors include: G lru Necipoğlu, Cristelle Baskins, Ana Pulido-Rull, Matt D. Saba, Jasmin Badr, Mustafa Tupev, nver Rustem, Ethem Eldem and Pierre Sim on.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900425949X
• ISBN13: 9789004259492
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.5"