Download or read book Muqarnas 31 written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by Brill. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.Muqarnas 31 contains articles spanning the vast parameters (both geographic and disciplinary) of the field of Islamic art and architecture, from Iberia to Central Europe to the Subcontinent, from the Madinat al-ZahraÊ3⁄4 in Cordoba to Ottoman textiles and costumes to Mughal painting. The volume also contains essays on lusterware produced in Seville in the Taifa period; gardens in the fourteenth-century text BÄ gh-i SamanzÄ r-i NÅ«shÄ b; the Elvan Çelebi complex in Anatolia; and Seljuq-era stucco sculptures from Iran.