Cairo has one of the highest concentrations of Islamic architectural treasures in the world. This introduction to the subject begins with an analysis of the Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conqu
Roxburgh (history of art, U. of Pennsylvania) traces factors which shaped the genre of the album preface written to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for the Persian cou
I. Islamic Lands in the Late Ayyubid Period; II. The Artifacts; III. Christian Imagery: It's Models and Meaning (New Testament Scenes; Sacred and Ecclesiastical Images; The Brasses in Their Cultural C
This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the architectural monuments and urban form of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Hafiz Huseyin bin Ismail
This source study examines prefaces to Persian albums (ca. 1491-1609) from a variety of perspectives historical, literary, and cultural to analyze the emergence, practice, and principles of art histor
The present volume contains critical editions of all five autobiographical accounts of the The sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan, along with transcriptions, annotated translations, and facsimi
The Risale-i Mi‘mariyye by Ca'fer Efendi is the most extensive and detailed Ottoman literary source devoted to a particular architect. In addition to being an account of the life and works of the impe
This book studies the surviving 79 monumental inscriptions from the Iranian world that date to the first five centuries of the Muslim era (ad 622-1106). Each is presented with photographs, drawings, t
A conference on the Islamic garden was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. This volume collects eight papers from the conference and two additional papers especially written for the b
This volume contains album prefaces in the original Persian version with English translation, miscellaneous documents relating to calligraphers and painters, and specimens of travel literature from th
